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TIL that when Bruce Springsteen was 19, he dodged his army draft by behaving "crazily" during the induction and not writing anything in tests. He later went on to write the song "Born in the USA" which was the singer’s reflection on the plight of American veterans returning home from Vietnam.

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5YnLP TIL about the Dunning–Kruger effect, which is "a cognitive bias wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is"
5VxNP TIL that on three occasions between 1922 and 1933, the Coca-Cola Company was offered the opportunity to purchase the Pepsi-Cola Company, which it declined on each occasion.
V1DB TIL:47 percent of Detroiters are ”functionally illiterate.”
5Y07D TIL after being called out on local TV, 2 porch pirates caught on camera returned a package of replica WWE belts (belonging to a 5-yr-old autistic boy with a brain tumor) with a note that read: “After seeing ourselves looking like low lives on the news, we have both decided to get clean and sober.”
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