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TIL that ignorance breeding overconfidence is a scientifically observed phenomenon called the “Dunning–Kruger effect“

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rR7do TIL of Brady Feigl a 6'4" redheaded minor league baseball pitcher in the Oakland Athletics system and Brady Feigl a 6'4" redheaded minor league baseball pitcher in the Texas Rangers system. Despite being each others doppelganger, DNA test did not indicate they were related to each other.
NXBNM TIL, in 2004, Piazza San Marco was closed for a major feature film premiere for the first time, as part of the Venice Film Festival. It screened the premiere of DreamWorks' Shark Tale.
XEDEE TIL that San Diego Zoo maintains a so-called "frozen zoo", a facility in which they preserve DNA from rare and near-extinct species
GY1O5 TIL Ray Bradbury wrote the first draft of “Fahrenheit 451” on a coin-operated typewriter in the basement of the UCLA library. It charged 10¢ for 30 minutes, and he spent $9.80 in total at the machine.
YvDW TIL in a part of southern India there is a custom for children to kill their parents when they get too old or if they can’t afford to take care of them.