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TIL People with little or no skill suffer from a false feeling of superiority, this “Dunning-Kruger effect” was originally noted by Charles Darwin and its modern proponents won a Nobel prize for its documentation.

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d8eZd TIL that Glenn K. Tripp, a D.B Cooper copycat, hijacked a plane for a $600k ransom. He had his drink spiked with Valium by a flight attendant, and after a 10 hour standoff, lowered his ransom to 3 cheeseburgers and a head start on a getaway.
mmPx TIL Sioux nation gave Costner a tract of land after making Dances with Wolves (1990). Costner built a golf course on that land.
Am7n TIL a man’s house was invaded by a SWAT team because they thought he was searching the Web for how to kill his wife, but it turned out he was a TV writer researching for a crime show.
8ellL TIL that reheated meat can actually have a “rancid” taste akin to wet dog smell or game due to lipid oxidation, it is called Warmed-Over Flavor.
R5ZDj TIL that while the first computer built, the Z3, had only 176 bytes of memory: the first computer designed - over 100 years earlier - had 16.6kB of memory.