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Want to know a fun fact that can probably win you a free round at the bar? P.T. Barnum didn’t say, “There’s a sucker born every minute” - a man named David Hannum did. But before that, we can talk about George Hull. After an argument with a minister about a passage in the book of Genesis that claims giants once walked the earth, Hull - an atheist - decided to construct a ten-foot fake giant and bury it on his cousin’s property. A year later, he hired men to dig a well on said property where they “discovered” the giant.
Hull put the giant (now known as the Cardiff Giant) on display charging $0.25 a viewing. He quickly increased that rate to $0.50 a pop. Scientists quickly called the gypsum sculpture a hoax, although ironically, Christian fundamentalists defended the Cardiff Giant as the genuine article. A consortium of men headed by David Hannum then purchased the giant from Hull and put it on display in New York City. Because P.T. Barnum’s attempts to lease or purchase the Giant were rebuffed, he simply built his own, causing Hannum to remark, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
Oh yeah, an anti-spam and anti-virus company named Panda Security analyzed the email traffic from eleven different industries. It turns out that the auto industry has a greater percentage of spam and malware coming into to its servers than any other. But here’s the thing: the auto industry only gets 0.11% more bad email than the second place industry (electronics) and 0.29% more junk than the cats in third place (government institutions). Ready for the punchline? 99.89% of all email received by the auto industry is either pure spam or some form of malware. Meaning that it’s much closer to ten-out-of-ten Nigerian princes agreeing that spamming the auto industry is where it’s at. Full press release after the jump.
[Source: Panda Security | Image: Flickr - Jul04379 via C.C. 2.0]
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