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TIL that the Iranian government banned the mullet as a measure to “confront the cultural assault by the West”

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k805 TIL Sonic Hedgehog is a protein critical to mammalian development. Its inhibitor? Robotnikinin.
DQQrY TIL The largest carnival float ever was 35 m, featuring a skateboarding bulldog surfing in an 24 m ocean of water. It weighed 45,000 kg
LLP9 TIL King Gustav III of Sweden commissioned an experiment to prove coffee was poisonous. Overseen by two doctors, a prisoner was forced to drink three pots of coffee a day until he died. Both doctors and the King died before the prisoner.
NXXR8 TIL Saturday Night Live comedy stars Chris Farley and Kenan Thompson appeared together in an All That sketch in 1997, the same year that Farley died and six years before before Thompson joined SNL.
N7paQ TIL Pikachu's name is mix of the Japanese for sparkle, pikapika, and the sound of squeaking, which is chūchū. So Pikachu's name means "Sparkle-squeak"