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TIL that the scientific name (Genus and species) for the Boa Constrictor is Boa constrictor.

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j6aZQ TIL that lots of different animals and birds like to take dust baths instead of normal water baths
6E0AX TIL of Hertha Oberheuser a Nazi physician described as a "devil" by survivors, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison but got out on good behavior after only 5 years and later worked as a pediatrician in Germany until her licensed was revoked due to pressure from the Press
Wk86L TIL that in 2010, an 18-year-old Indonesian man was found having sex with a cow, who he claimed flirted with him. In order to cleanse the village of the act of bestiality, the man was forced to ritually marry the cow. The cow was then drowned in the ocean, and the man was also symbolically drowned
QP76 TIL that throughout the 20th century, boys were preferred over girls as babysitters because 1) Teenage girls were dismissed as flighty and self-absorbed; and 2) young boys needed male role models.
XEJdr TIL In 1966 a relatively unknown young American musician asked to get on stage with Cream and THE guitar God Eric Clapton. He played the song Killing Floor, which Clapton had always said was too difficult to play live. That man was Jimi Hendrix and that became known as "The day Hendrix killed God."