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TIL that a penguin has served in the Norwegian army and has received knighthood

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PYpLO TIL about solved games. Solved games are games whose outcome can be correctly predicted from any position, assuming both players play the best possible moves. Tic-tac-toe is easily solvable. Chess may never be fully solved.
4ygo TIL Michael J. Fox’s middle name is ‘Andrew’
R7Y11 TIL the monarch in the UK cannot be prosecuted for any crime. In theory, this means somebody could murder their way up the chain of succession. Providing they are not caught before they become the monarch, they will be able to get away with it without any legal issues.
6kk7 TIL Matt Damon and Ben Affleck originally wrote ‘Good Will Hunting’ with an oral sex scene between the main character and his shrink to see which film execs had truly read the script. They sold the film rights to Harvey Weinstein of Miramax, the only one to mention the scene was wildly out of place
QVKa TIL that artist Piero Manzoni created Artists’ Shit, 90 tin cans containing 30 grams of feces, as a mockery to the art world, then sold them for $37 dollars each. They’re now worth upwards of $100000 each.