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TIL Sonic Hedgehog is a protein critical to mammalian development. Its inhibitor? Robotnikinin.

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99oB TIL: Taking pi to 39 digits allows us to measure the circumference of the observable universe to within the width of a single hydrogen atom.
jjpE TIL there is a UN document adopted by 178 governments on how to reorient all of human society.
v1Ar7 TIL Before Houdini died, he and his wife agreed that if Houdini found it possible to communicate after death, he would communicate the message "Rosabelle believe", a secret code which they agreed to use. Rosabelle was their favorite song.
j6yPQ TIL Finches and canaries were used in the coal mine industry to detect carbon monoxide. This practice ceased as of 1986
Bk4D TIL that the “Syrian Observatory for Human Rights” is just one man from Coventry, cited by western media as a “source”