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TIL about the Hindsight bias: also known as the knew-it-all-along phenomenon or creeping determinism, is the common tendency for people to perceive past events as having been more predictable than they were.

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vPGpr TIL that 1-2% of adults suffer from nocturnal enuresis or involuntary bed-wetting
9wxMm TIL of José Bové, a French sheep farmer and activist. On 1999, he became a national here by dismantling a McDonald's under construction in Millau to protest WTO backing the right of the U.S. to export hormone induced beef to Europe.
jNDrX TIL that polar bears and grizzly bears can have babies and they are called pizzly bears!
Wk4W4 TIL Scientists find 'world's oldest cheese' in a 3,300-year-old Egyptian tomb, but you can't eat it
9J6G TIL New York City paid $500 million to settle claims against its police department over just five years