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TIL about “illusion of asymmetric insights” the conviction that we know others better than they know us

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6EEDw TIL scientists use sunflowers to clean up nuclear radiation
pMjp TIL that the Dutch first sighted Australia and never settled it, they described the island as a “wasteland”
ORxg TIL Between 2005 and 2009, Americans’ retirement savings had shrunk by about $2.5 trillion. More than 8.8 million jobs were lost, and roughly 3 million homes had gone into foreclosure.
wLVEW TIL that scientists were able to use a spinach leaf as scaffolding to build a mini working human heart.
y8kJ TIL nine-banded armadillos always give birth to identical quadruplets.