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TIL that there’s a protein named Sonic Hedgehog

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jNbXE TIL the Australian Palm Cockatoo is the only animal other than humans known to drum out a rhythmic beat with a tool/stick. First witnessed in 1997 they do this to attract females.
n1Yb TIL that a man escaped from a German prison by hiding in a cardboard box, which was then taken outside of the prison by courier
jYYM TIL There’s a service called “Cleaning for a reason” in the U.S. and Canada that cleans the houses of women with cancer for free so they can focus on their health.
7rjoX TIL the renouned British pub meal, 'Ploughman's Lunch', was invented in the 1950s as a marketing exercise. The Cheese Bureau, a marketing body, began promoting it in pubs as a way to increase the sales of cheese, which had recently ceased to be rationed.
4XMY6 TIL while the average American musician made $35k in 2017, only $21,300 of that was generated from music-related ventures, and 61% of surveyed musicians said that "music-related income is not sufficient to meet their living expenses.".