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TIL: Peacocks are ophiophagous, they eat snakes.

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Z8wGa TIL that Hitler got the idea to sterilize the physically and mentally handicap from the success of the United States program in the 1930's, the US stopped due to not wanting to be associated with that image.
BgpWd TIL about the Storegga Slide. In about 6200BCE, structural failures in the Norwegian continental shelf triggered submarine landslides with 3500km³ of debris, causing extreme tsunamis in the North Sea. A similar event today would be catastrophic for many coastal cities of Britain and mainland Europe.
0bJM TIL A woman (registered nurse) was watching the show “Flip or Flop” on HGTV and noticed a lump on hosts neck. Emailed production company to make them aware and host ended up having thyroid cancer and didn’t know.
W7v84 TIL about the "Society for Lying In" hospital in NYC, built in 1902, it's name based on archaic term for childbirth. It's estimated that 60% of the births in Manhattan took place there.
BxK TIL The Equal Rights Amendment (designed to guarantee equal rights for women) was initially proposed by 2 Republicans and was a constant party platform of the Republican Party for 40 years – but failed to be adopted.