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TIL Impostor syndrome (also known as impostor phenomenon or fraud syndrome or the impostor experience) is a concept describing individuals who are marked by an inability to internalize their accomplishments and a persistent fear of being exposed as a “fraud”.

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Xo4E TIL that 29,000 rubber ducks were lost at sea in 1992, and are still being found, revolutionising mankind’s knowledge of ocean science
EVb0 TIL that medieval English longbows could fire an arrow more than 300 yards and required so much strength that the skeletons of medieval archers can by identified by their enlarged left arms.
EgDnp TIL that 1604, King James I wrote ‘A Counterblaste to Tobacco’, in which he described smoking as a ‘custome lothesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs
QN8Vd TIL: Paper planes were not made to mimic air planes. They predate airplanes by more than 2000 years.
xAjo TIL the Mayflower landed early because they ran out of beer. This was because water was unsafe, but beer remained drinkable.