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TIL Good Judgement Project (GJP) that demonstrated certain "superforecasters" were better at predicting geopolitical and economic events than even experts in that field (even if they had classified info) based on HOW they thought about problems & ability to reduce basic biases experts tend to have.

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xVbN0 TIL In 2015 Joakim Brodén, vocalist of Sabaton, being drunk he bet that he would walk to their next concert, forgetting that it was gonna be at Tronheim, +550km from his position. He ended up walking more than 700km.
W7NbX TIL that Iceland and the UK directly fought against each other in the "Cod Wars" intermittently from the 1950s to the 1970s. This was despite both states being members of NATO.
9w6a7 TIL there is a type 3 diabetes that is severely under-diagnosed. It is linked to problems with the pancreas specifically.
W7kBA TIL that Rhode Island School of Design’s (RISD)—one of the most prestigious architectural and design schools in the world— mascot is called scrotie and all their team names are dick puns
7r8Br TIL China was the first country in the world to produce steel preceding Europe by over 1000 years but failed to reach an industrial revolution due to the absence of a middle class