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minus-squareresting_parrot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·9 days ago“Never trust a statistic you didn’t take yourself.”
minus-squareSchneemann@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·9 days agoShould be ‘fake’ not ‘take’, right?
minus-squareresting_parrot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoYep, that was a typo. Whoops
minus-squareGeneral_Effort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 days agoHistory Trivia: No one outside Germany knows that “Churchill-quote” because it was made up by Nazi propaganda.
minus-squareSchneemann@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoAfter a quick search I found lots of pages that attributed it to Churchill or Goebbels but apparently there is actually no record of one of them saying it.
“Never trust a statistic you didn’t take yourself.”
Should be ‘fake’ not ‘take’, right?
Yep, that was a typo. Whoops
History Trivia: No one outside Germany knows that “Churchill-quote” because it was made up by Nazi propaganda.
After a quick search I found lots of pages that attributed it to Churchill or Goebbels but apparently there is actually no record of one of them saying it.