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TIL Many polls and surveys are not interested in your response. They are not polls at all. Instead they are marketing pushes disguised as polls that steer your thinking through manipulative questioning. Its called "push polling".

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d0OB TIL that Ferrero, the company that makes Nutella, Kinder chocolate, Ferrero Rocher, and Tic Tacs, is considered to be both one of the most secretive and most reputable companies in the world.
NEL6 TIL there are tribes called ‘Cargo Cults’, who worshipped planes during WW2, believing they were gifts from the gods, and they built their own small airstrips and phoney planes to attract them. Some tribes still exist today.
6EPnX TIL that William Shakespeare never actually spelled his own name as "William Shakespeare" in his works. Variants of his name include Sakspere, Sackspere, Shakespere, Shakespeer, Shakyspyer, Shaxpeare and others
lwp1 TIL that a Canadian town is giving away free land. Dalhousie, New Brunswick’s population has dropped by 21% in 15 years, and is giving away parcels valued at up to C$50,000 to “anybody who’s interested — an entrepreneur or business. We’ll give ‘em the property”.
x6jNB TIL there are five mass extinctions that each destroying 75-95% of all species. Currently we are on the sixth, because of human activities.