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[–] resting_parrot@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Never trust a statistic you didn't take yourself."

[–] Schneemann@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Should be 'fake' not 'take', right?

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

History Trivia: No one outside Germany knows that "Churchill-quote" because it was made up by Nazi propaganda.

[–] Schneemann@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

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.