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TIL That in a 1999 poll of guitarists, Noel Gallagher was voted the most overrated guitarist of the millenium, which was the award he most enjoyed receiving.

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QJWo9 TIL of the art movement called Accidentalism, in which a portrait is painted first, and only after the work is done a person is looked for that looks like the one in the painting. There are still portraits that have not found a subject yet.
lonJ7 TIL that during WWII Audie Murphy earned every US Army combat award for valor, and several French and Belgian awards for heroism. He earned the Medal of Honor at 19 for holding off a company of German soldiers for an hour, then leading a successful counter attack while out of ammo and wounded.
6E7Q8 TIL scientists have been giving MDMA to Octopuses to see what effect it has on their sociability. "At first they used too high a dose, and the animals “freaked out and did all these color changes,”
OxGa TIL the Richter scale is an exponential scale which uses powers of 10. Meaning an earthquake measuring 9 on the Richter scale 1,000 times stronger than one measuring 6.
R0b7 TIL the Japanese word for male masturbation is “Senzuri” (“a hundred rubs”), while female masturbation is “Shiko shiko manzuri” (“ten thousand rubs”).