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TIL that 'Peacock' only describes the males of the 'Peafowl' species; the females are 'Peahens'.

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yQE9e TIL On Oct 30, 2005, Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer, was mourned when her casket was placed in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol for two days. She was the first woman and the second African-American to lie in state there. She was the 31st person and the first American not a U.S. government official.
wMvM TIL that Belarus is the last country in Europe that still uses the death penalty. The convicts are shot in the back of the head with a silenced PB-9 pistol. The whole procedure, starting with the announcement about denied appeals and ending with the gunshot, lasts no longer than two minutes.
yVoOX TIL only Kenyan runners have won the Commonwealth Games 3000 metre steeplechase since 1994
njdW TIL that Wombat Poop is cube-shaped.
woejJ TIL A Serial Killer Thought He Could Read His Victims Minds