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TIL of the Dunning–Kruger effect, a phenomenon in which an incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence

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j61gj TIL that China operates only on one time zone
N7mBE TIL The National Spelling Bee titled 8 Co-Champions after running out of words in a 3.5 Hour Final. Starting with 562 Contestants, the Final Eight continued for 20 Straight Rounds of Spelling Words without any errors.
ADBY7 TIL Winston Churchill's mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, was born in Brooklyn, New York
e0Bxg TIL Target owns the license for Targét, the pseudo-French pronunciation of Target
ANdjB TIL damage to 30–40 castles shaped the macroseismic map of the 1356 Basel earthquake, Central Europe’s strongest with 6.0–7.1, which killed ~1,000 and destroyed most of the city’s buildings.