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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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R7dw1 TIL the sale a small economy car is about ten times less profitable to an automaker than the sale of a large car.
D1OBP TIL there are Forth World countries. Many inhabitants of these nations do not have any political ties and are often hunter-gatherers that live in nomadic communities, or are part of tribes.
oR9br TIL that there is only one species of beetle that can sting, and it is the only arthropod that stings with its antennae.
gM8R8 TIL the people of North Sentinel Island, often described as uncontacted, were visited extensively in the 1990s. They hunt wild pig, their songs contain two notes, and their only form of art is body painting. Researchers compare them to humans 15,000 years ago.
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