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TIL that there’s a protein named Sonic Hedgehog

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e0x5L TIL, on April 9th 2007, a theater filled with parents and their small children who were there to see 'The Last Mimzy' were accidentally shown 'The Hills Have Eyes 2', in which the beginning of the movie features a screaming, bruised, beaten, and bloodied woman delivering a deformed newborn
NXp71 TIL someone bought a domain name (GutHib.com) just to say that you spelled GitHub wrong.
wLvkP TIL the Albanian government scammed its citizens multiple times with pyramid schemes, sparking civil war in 1997
Vg58 TIL if a man is physically forced to sexually penetrate someone without consent (such as being pinned or held down, or by the use of violence) or threatened with physical harm, or when the victim was drunk, high, drugged, or passed out and unable to consent IT IS NOT RAPE.(CDC Full report page 17)
N7rL1 TIL when slave/abolitionist Frederick Douglass was 16, he fought back against his brutal master. Edward Covey, a man who had a reputation as a "slave-breaker," whipped Douglas regularly and almost broke him until one day, Douglass fought and came out victorious. Covey never tried to beat him again.