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TIL the Milky Way may already be a zombie galaxy, having stopped producing new stars a billion years ago but still moving

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yVy5a TIL that birds are now using anti-bird spikes to build their nests.
79X TIL that unlike chess, professional go players overwhelmingly defeat the best computers
DQ1Ee TIL that in 1965, the painter Roman Opałka had the idea of representing the passing of time by painting numbers: he painted a 1, then a 2, then a 3, etc, and continued for the rest of his life. The last number he painted before he died in 2011 was 5607249.
VMaK4 Today I learned about Polish Haitians who date back to 1802 when they fought along side Haitian slaves during the Haitian Revolution which helped establish the world's first free black Republic. The Poles acquired Haitian citizenship for their support in overthrowing the French colonialists.
Mxk0 TIL that in “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” Rufus never tells them his name. They learn his name from their future selves, who mention it when they come back to visit their past selves at the Circle K.