› added 7 years ago

183

TIL A WW2 pigeon named Mary of Exeter survived an assassination attempt by a German warhawk, was shot, hit with shrapnel, and survived a bombing of her loft while delivering messages across the English Channel to France.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

MmR7 TIL that despite harsh punishments, many Germans ridiculed “Heil Hitler”, some saying “Ein Liter” instead, and others sarcastically responding with “Is He Sick?” because of the identical pronunciations of “Heil” and “Heal”.
abWy TIL Bald Eagles go through a crazy color transformation: the first five years they gradually change; the beak turns from black to yellow, the eyes from brown to pale yellow, body feathers from mottled to dark brown, and head and tail feathers from mottled to solid white.
Y7GLW TIL that the official residence of the Canadian Prime Minister has been unoccupied since 2015, while crews work to renovate the building and remove rodents, asbestos, and obsolete mechanical/electrical/heating systems.
d8nYK TIL that neon nail polish is not legal in the U.S. This is because the FDA has not approved the chemicals used in them and because companies do not want to register these new chemicals since it would be too expensive. This is why neon nail polish available in the U.S is actually imported.
9wAlm TIL about Hitomi Soga-Jenkins, a Japanese woman who was abducted to North Korea with her mother in 1978. Her mother disappeared and was never seen again. She was given a Korean name and married an American defector. They had two daughters. The family returned to Japan in 2004 where they live today.