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TIL South Dakota - The United Nations Headquarters That Never Was

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vPaB7 TIL That during a duet between John Lennon and Chuck Berry on a 1972 episode of 'The Mike Douglas Show' the show's sound engineer cut off the mic of Yoko Ono who had been interrupting with incomprehensible wailing during a rendition of 'Memphis Tennessee'.
7rnJx TIL that elephants have enough intelligence and dexterity to create drawings with their trunks
xVa90 TIL Of the Dunning-Kruger effect. A cognitive bias in the field of psychology that defines a person so stupid that they can't truly understand how stupid they are, so they end up believing they're intelligent, and usually intellectually superior to those around them.
v1lpR TIL that the Stars On 45 medley I remember from the 80s didn’t include the real Beatles, but a bunch of re-recorded versions with Dutch impersonators, and therefore got around any rights issues.
9pJD TIL that, following a man’s attempt to sue Satan, the United States’ legal opinion on the Devil is that he might exist, and if so, is most likely to be found living in New Hampshire.