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TIL That high self-esteem has no impact or very little impact on a person's success.

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lwdG TIL: Jim Jarmusch was dismayed to discover all the money he paid for the rights to Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put a Spell on You” went to the record company, with nothing going to Hawkins himself. When the film (Stranger Than Paradise) earned a profit, he tracked down Hawkins to give him some money
9YP1G TIL that the in The Sandlot, the guy who played the grown up version of Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez, and who stole home for the Dodgers, is the real-life older brother of the kid who played Benny.
VBvJD TIL the U.S. quietly provided over $1.3 billion in aid to North Korea from 1995 to 2008, including large scale food shipments during the "Arduous March" famine that killed hundreds of thousands.
1ar7r TIL when the U.S. refused to sell jet fighters to them in the early 80s due to treaties and pressure from China, Taiwan developed and produced their own, the Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF).
nWyWG TIL that Handel's Sarabande, the theme music for Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, is originally a solo harpsichord tune.