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TIL that Cheese Became a Pizza Topping Roughly a Century After Pizza's Invention

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dYn8 TIL that Dwayne Johnson’s beard in the movie Hercules was made of yak testicle hair.
OGb5X TIL the Sonic Hedgehog protein is a key signaling molecule in human embryos that helps control how the brain, face, and limbs form. Without it, major body parts wouldn’t grow in the right places.
kOey1 TIL that the term scapegoat comes from an old Jewish ritual where they would put all the sins of the townspeople onto a goat and then banish that goat from town sending the burden of their sins with it.
KOGga TIL In 1978, a man was sentenced to life in prison for forging an $88 check because he refused to accept a plea deal and had previously been convicted of two felonies. The Supreme Court upheld the decision.
NXAVQ Today I learned that Al Martino, who plays Johnny Fontane in The Godfather, got the role with help and pressure of his actual Godfather and crime boss, Russell Bufalino, exactly like his character.