Fully 81% of U.S. adults who prefer facts without interpretation …
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/18/news-media-interpretation-vs-facts/
Who invented the countdown?
And its originator was not a scientist, but the brilliant Austrian filmmaker Fritz Lang. Lang, best known for his movies Metropolis and M, was working on a science fiction film called Woman in the Moon that featured a dramatic rocket launch, preceded by a countdown of the final ten seconds before launch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Lang