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TIL That there is a protein called Sonic hedgehog

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d8rG7 TIL a Vietnamese soldier and his one year old son fled into the jungle during the war and remained there for 40 years, until 2013.
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woNoY TIL about ''execution of nine relations'' from china in which a criminal's spouse, kids, grandkids, parents, grandparents ,cousins, aunts and uncles, inlaws would all be killed. Usually only used in cases of treason though sometimes this was used for crimes as mundane as libel.
Ee6w TIL Alex the Grey Parrot had a vocabulary of over 100 words and could distinguish seven colors and five shapes. He once asked what color he was, making him the first and only non-human animal to ever ask an existential question.
dD747 TIL: North Korea is home to an Orthodox Church despite being an anti-christian state