Hello. Hello. Hi. Who are we talking to? Alissa. I'm second grade and I'm a

brownie girl scout. And Alissa, we want to try to get people to donate to NPR.

And so I want you to tell us all of your tricks about how you get people to buy

Girl Scout cookies. Okay. Okay. You have to be smart because it's really hard work to

scout cookies. Right. Okay. We can do that. We can be smart. Next one. Always be cute.

Because if you be cute, you look there. They will love you and give you money and have

your cookie. Okay. So you have to look cute. Work cute. What if someone says, oh no thank

you. I don't want any Girl Scout cookies today. What do you say? You mean say, thank you

for listening and then we'll work with because you always have to be friendly and not

neat. So you say, okay, well thank you anyways. Thanks for listening. Mm-hmm. I think that's

a good approach too. Will you tell people where they can donate to NPR? Donate.NPR.Orth.

Last planet money. Thank you so much. Thank you. This is Planet Money from NPR. Number

one. Each year humanity produces a thousand times more transistors than grains of rice

and wheat combined. Great. Do another one from just anywhere on the list. 34. 28% of people

like the smell of their own urine after eating asparagus. 5. Byju is the world's most popular

spirit with 10 billion litres sold every year almost entirely in China. Okay pause there

and introduce yourself. Yeah so my name is Tom Wittswell and I am a consultant at Flux

and every year I write a list which is called 52 Things I Learned. Thank you for doing

this. I love your list. Okay. Thank you. Jacob is your biggest list fan. I've been sending

around your list to my colleagues at Planet Money for the last few years and saying like

this is like 52 story ideas and then this year I was like, or maybe it's one story idea.

Yeah just keep going. 49. Flaming hot Cheetos were invented by a cleaner at a Frito

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