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TIL that when somebody overestimates their knowledge and abilities in an area because they don't even know how little they know, it is called Dunning-Kruger effect

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wL9Lo TIL Henry Jay Lewis was an American double-bassist and orchestral conductor. A child prodigy, he joined the L.A. Philharmonic at age 16, becoming the first African-American instrumentalist in a major symphony orchestra and later, the first African-American symphony orchestra conductor in the U.S.
M7EQ8 TIL that some people are genetically gifted in that they can sleep for as little as 4 hours without suffering from daytime sleepiness or other consequences of sleep deprivation
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9EPB TIL that the highest salaries on the Department of Defense payroll are the head football coaches of the three military academies.
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