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TIL Hens can spontaneously become roosters

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ew94 TIL that incompetent people don’t know they’re incompetent and completely overestimate their abilities, while truly competent people are filled with doubts and often underestimate their own abilities - it’s called the Dunning Kruger effect.
166aP TIL Weird Al's biggest problem with services that illegally distributed his music was that they would misattribute songs to him. Al was especially annoyed by profane songs like, "Baby Got Jack” or “Ugly Girl”.
nWLb TIL the Space Jam sound track went sextuple platinum, and the movie grossed over $230,000,000
VQRp TIL Yuichi Nishimura the controversal ref from Croatia vs. Brazil once red carded the wrong Chinese player due to mistaken identity
P159V TIL that the best time to take a nap is 7-8 hours after waking up, typically in the early to mid-afternoon depending on your wake-up time, and it should last 20-45 minutes to avoid sleep onset issues. If you need a longer nap to catch up on sleep debt, it’s better to take it earlier