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TIL the highest achievement in the community of airbrush artistry is the “Vargas Award.”

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yVLav TIL that the movie Dodgeball inserted a joke of a fictional sports channel called "ESPN 8: The Ocho" which aired obscure sports. In 2017, ESPN launched a real "ESPN 8: the Ocho" as a program block that usually airs in August every year.
dDyXK TIL Giorgio Moroder (Daft Punk collaborator) once released an album with Michael Holm titled Spinach, whose cover art featured a nude woman covered in the titular vegetable.
QNyOL TIL that the Ghanaian Kingsley Ofosu is the only survivor of a massacre perpetrated by the crew of a cargo ship he and 8 other people stowed away on. He managed to hide for 3 days then flee to safety when the ship reached France, while the other stowaways were all murdered by the crew.
kOGr4 TIL that autistic people have around 27 billion neurons on average. For the sake of comparison, a non autistic adult has around 16 billion neurons, and a chimpanzee around has 8 billion.
l7oX7 TIL the two interpretations of Enumclaw, Washington is "The Home of Evil Spirits" or "The Thunder God" in Salish and other Native American languages.