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TIL the Dunning-Kruger Effect: the cognitive bias of illusory superiority, or why incompetent people think they're amazing. "When arguing with a fool, make sure the other person isn't doing the same"

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9Y7gM TIL that because he was in exile for nearly 30 years, Hồ Chí Minh could speak fluently as well as read and write professionally in French, English, Russian, Cantonese and Mandarin as well as his mother tongue Vietnamese
e0JB4 TIL That liquor diluted with water is absorbed faster than straight alcohol.
Yg0W TIL an autistic seven year old’s first word was “Fonzi” when Henry Winkler tried to sit in a theater seat in front of her. The girl’s mother fainted from the shock.
VBOB TIL in the Middle Ages it was thought that the left testicle made sperm for girls. Men wanting sons would have it removed.
j6j8p TIL of Operation Border Stone, where Czechslovak secret police set up fake border crossings near West Germany to capture people trying to escape the communist nation. The police held fake "welcome" interviews and led the refugees into path where real police awaited for them.