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TIL a 2012 study found that uninformed people are influenced more by subjective reporting: “If you want to reach a bigger audience — those less-informed — you need to inject as much opinion into your work as possible”

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xG80 TIL Kit Kat is so popular in Japan that it is sold at high-end department stores, Kit Kat only specialty shops, and post offices. Nearly every region has a signature flavor sold only in that part of the country, and there are nearly 300 flavors of Kit Kat.
9Yeom TIL that Amazon pays music artists $0.00402 per stream, so to earn $1830.85 in a month it would require 366,169 streams.
gE8A TIL that the first person killed on September 11th was an Israeli special operations veteran and MIT graduate student who immediately attempted to stop the hijacking of Flight 11.
6jZ8 TIL, scientists successfully used E coli and Glucose to create a renewable Propane Gas.
rR99w TIL about “Charlie the Horse” who survived being trapped by the Frank Slide for a month but then died gorging on brandy and oats provided by his rescuers.