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TIL Dumb people over estimate their abilities. Smart people under estimate their abilities. Dunning-Kruger.

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kRv5 TIL Anthony Hopkins played Adolf Hitler in the 1981 movie The Bunker. He won an Emmy Award and actors on the set claimed his performance was so convincing that those playing German soldiers snapped to attention whenever Hopkins came onto the set, even if he wasn’t in character.
VaBk TIL that female toilets in Japan are equipped with devices that artificially create flushing noises called ‘Sound Princess’ due to many Japanese women being embarrassed at the thought of being heard by others during urination thus wasting water by constantly flushing.
7rVyO TIL Cold water has negative calories, since your body needs to spend energy to heat it up.
jXXM TIL that the rule dictating when to use “fewer” instead of “less” is completely based on the personal preference of a grammarian in the 1770s
N7A8E TIL the Shag Rocks were charted by William Scoresby in 1927. They are inhabited mainly by South Georgia shags, a subspecies of the imperial shag.