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TIL of two neighbor galaxies nicknamed "Akira" and "Tetsuo". Akira is a 'red geyser': a galaxy that has stopped making stars because its massive black hole is stealing gas from a nearby galaxy, Tetsuo, leading to friction and temperatures that prevent gas from clumping together (1million+ degrees)

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kOr15 TIL that the moon is egg shaped. It appears to be a perfect circle because the gravitational force of the earth almost permanently has the tip of the moon pointed at it.
Qak9 TIL that Gary James Paulsen (“Hatchet” author) watched his mother beat a molester to death, hunted for sustenance while a teen, was molested by his parents servant, ran away and joined a carnival at 14, witnessed a plane crash/passengers get attacked by sharks, and completed the 1,150 mile Iditarod
NXQM TIL that there is a company releasing genetically modified mosquitos with a “death gene” to breed with other mosquitos to decrease mosquito population
7r8KO TIL rainbows can be formed at night. They are called 'Moonbows'
bmE7 TIL That clownfish are ‘sequential hermaphrodites’, meaning that if Finding Nemo were more accurate, Nemo’s father would’ve turned into his mother after the real mother died, Nemo would’ve become the new reproducing male, “and they would raise little incestuous Nemos together.”