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TIL that according to certain psychological models, there are four stages to learning a skill: unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence.

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N7PO8 TIL that a doctor on an Air Canada flight jerry-rigged a device to help a toddler breath who was having an asthma attack. Dr. Khurshid Guru, director of Robotic Surgery at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, created a nebulizer using a water bottle, a cup, oxygen, and an adult inhaler.
aJ8y TIL that the CEO of Netflix once said that Blockbuster was throwing everything at them, but the kitchen sink. The next day he received a kitchen sink from the CEO of Blockbuster.
aBL9 TIL A Spanish judge has ruled that women can be charged more for driving lessons because “men were better drivers”
W79j4 TIL a Goldman Sachs report believes close to 300 million jobs will be lost to AI. It could replace a quarter of the workforce in US and Europe.
e0eM6 TIL that a fake smile is called 'The Pan Am smile', named after the airline Pan American World Airways, whose flight attendants would always flash every passenger the same superficial smile.