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TIL about Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud's nephew and the man known as the father of PR. He helped Woodrow Wilson convince Americans to enter WW1, turned Bacon and eggs into 'The True American Breakfast' and made it acceptable for women to be smoking publicly.

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