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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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grD94 TIL two prison escapees from Utah were arrested by UC Berkeley police officers after they claimed to be from San Francisco by saying "I'm from Frisco", which aroused the officers' suspicions because "no one from here ever says that."
7rPv7 TIL that Abraham Lincoln admired John Wilkes Booth's acting, and had invited him to the White House many times in the years before his assassination.
lodrG TIL that Simone Segouin was a French Resistance fighter in WWII that was only 18 when Germany invaded. She took part in large-scale missions, such as capturing German troops, derailing trains, and other acts of sabotage. And she is still alive and just celebrated her 95th birthday.
d8wVB TIL Dorothy and Theodore are the same name reversed. They're both made from the Greek roots "doron" (gift) and "theos" (God).
R7NJ6 TIL US Marines forced Saddam Hussein to watch the South Park movie, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut numerous times throughout his captivity.