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TIL: Peacocks are ophiophagous, they eat snakes.

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e0xYk TIL that Readjuster Party, led by two former Confederate officers in post-Civil-War Virginia, abolished the poll tax, abolished the public whipping post, funded public schools for African Americans, hired African Americans as teachers, and founded the historically black Virginia State University.
nWX5b TIL that boxer Max Schmeling who was branded a pawn of The Third Reich for defeating Joe Louis, actually sheltered Jewish children during Kristallnacht.
xV1jg TIL Ben Franklin wished the Bald Eagle had not been chosen to represent the US as it is “of bad moral character, a rank coward and a robber” and a Turkey would be more fitting.
8eALG TIL that the bullet-riddled Ford that Bonnie and Clyde were assassinated in became a popular traveling attraction. The car was displayed at fairs, amusement parks, and flea markets for three decades, and once became a fixture at a Nevada race track. There was also once a charge of $1 to sit in it.
MkRA TIL the witness Protection Program has never had a breach of security in which a protected person or family member was harmed.