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TIL that the spinning, animated icon to indicate that something on your screen is loading is called a "Throbber"

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MeADa TIL that a chimpanzee community in Gombe National Park split into two factions and went to war with each other from 1974 to 1978. During the war, male chimps would team up to raid neighbouring territories and patrol the borders. If they found a lone chimp they would brutally kill them.
691KY TIL that when white settlers asked abolitionist John Brown to drive Native Americans out of Ohio. He refused, saying "I would sooner take my gun and help drive you out of the country!"
mxDxM TIL that Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking, and Mark Zuckerberg founded a project to send swarms of tiny spacecraft, driven by solar sails powered by gigawatt lasers, to nearby stars.
JL0l TIL when volunteers providing food to elderly and poor people through the Meals on Wheels program began to notice that people were sharing their limited food with their pets, an organization called AniMeals was developed to feed their pets as well.
POJJ TIL Andromeda is falling towards our home Galaxy at a rate of 110 kilometres per second and in 4 billion years, the two galaxies will pass through each other. 2 billion years after that, they will fall back in a permanent embrace to form a single galaxy.