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TIL OJ Simpson’s father was a well known drag queen in the San Francisco area

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k805 TIL Sonic Hedgehog is a protein critical to mammalian development. Its inhibitor? Robotnikinin.
jN47j TIL that Harry Connick Jr.‘s mother-in-law, Glenna Goodacre, was a famous sculptor who designed the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington DC, the Irish Memorial in Philadelphia, and the Sacagawea dollar.
loDZG TIL that Jaws 2 was almost a prequel about the USS Indianapolis, the WW2 sinking/shark attack that killed hundreds of sailors and that Quint describes in the original Jaws
nWnM7 TIL the tower Michel de Montaigne wrote most of his Essays in, and the library that was once covered in the paintings, are accessible to visitors. Some maxims in the Essays are still visible today
G9oG TIL there’s an episode of Arthur that teaches censorship on television. For the entirety of the episode the children learn and use curse words toward one another!