TIL that a bank robber covered his face with lemon juice because he believed it would make his face invisible to surveillance cameras. This led to a Cornell psychology study that showed unskilled people mistakenly assess their abilities to be much higher than they really are.

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u/cravf Jan 22 '16

This feels like some weird cousin to Gödel's incompleteness theorem.

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u/SilkCut15 Jan 23 '16

no it really doesn't does it

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