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TIL: Peacocks are ophiophagous, they eat snakes.

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MeEp0 TIL Leonardo Da Vinci was Ambidextrous. He could write, draw & paint with both hands simultaneously, resulting in a ‘Mirror Script’. Some Historians believe this was to hide his scientific ideas from the powerful Roman Catholic Church, or simply to prevent smudging.
d8pPd TIL that in the 50s and 60s, American chiropractors held a series of rather unusual beauty pageants where contestants were judged and winners picked not only by their apparent beauty and poise, but also their standing posture (backed with X-rays of their spines, of course).
JYbkm TIL of a failed 1996 space rocket launch that flew directly into a village and China tried to cover up
NXblP TIL before 1804, the office of the US vice-president was awarded to runner up to the presidential race
QJdYX TIL we're supposed to be wearing sunscreen indoors to protect from UVA rays.