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TIL about the Dunning-Kruger Graph / Effect- it explains so much about today's self-proclaimed experts!

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aD8M TIL that in 1990, Mobil Oil bought a BMW 3 series to test their new synthetic oil on. They drove it a million miles on a treadmill for four years.
WkQlX TIL coins thrown into the Trevi fountain in Rome where collected by an Italian man for 34 years. Doing this 6 days a week; making sometimes as much as $1000 for a 15 minutes splash. He started fishing the fountain in 1968.
p0b TIL Clark Gable nearly boycotted the Atlanta premiere of Gone with the Wind because his African-American co-star Hattie McDaniel was not allowed to attend
5YoKn TIL that there’s a British band named Nirvana, who formed in 1965 and they sued the American band over the same name but settled out of court
XEeM6 TIL that Russia trained dolphins how to kill people with harpoons and to undertake kamikaze strikes against enemies. They then sold them to Iran after running out of dolphin food