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TIL that the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias where people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability because they lack the self-awareness to recognize their own incompetence.

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x61Vg TIL Miami has an underwater graveyard, Neptune Memorial Reef. Cremated remains are mixed with concrete and formed into sculptures, with a copper plate marking each sculpture, so that family can dive and know where to visit their loved one’s specific resting place
J1vaQ TIL Lightning can heat the air it passes through to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5 times hotter than the surface of the sun)
e0rKL TIL that in the 1910s, an encyclopedia company gave away tracts of land in Huntington Beach, California, with every $126 encyclopedia set purchased. Today, the median home price in the area is close to a million dollars.
x6VbD TIL The Yangtze River is the 3rd longest river but the longest with a watershed in only one country. TIL#2: A few tributaries of the Missouri River start in Canada
kOAXE TIL of "sea gypsies" who roam the sea most of their lives. Moken children have been demonstrated to be able to see better underwater while members of another group have a number of genetic adaptations for a lifestyle involving extensive freediving.