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TIL a severely injured pigeon saved 194 men during WW1

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BgXvd TIL we may soon be able to talk to the animals
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78OeM TIL that former Harvard President Lawrence Summers resigned in large part due to a speech in which he said the reason for underrepresentation of women in the hard sciences was partly due to genetics
6Ev1W TIL in 1987, FBI agent Robert Hanssen was tasked by his superiors to find a mole within the agency after the FBI's moles in the KGB were caught. In reality, he was the mole, working with the KGB since 1979. He was eventually caught in 2001 and is currently serving 15 consecutive life sentences.
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