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TIL "People forget 90% of what they read". Then I learned this traces back to Edgar Dale who published a 'Cone of Experience' in 1949 as an idea, NO %s given. In 1967 someone at Mobil Oil tacked on the numbers that are mis-cited today. I learned this yesterday also, forgive the repost.

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aw7oy TIL Tiger Woods PGA Tour '99 was recalled because the entire South Park pilot was used as dummy data on the disc and players discovered they could watch the episode by simply putting the game disc into a PC.
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