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TIL that the Bald Eagle, long a symbol of the United States, was not officially proclaimed the National Bird until yesterday

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j4gM TIL Richard Feynman was arrested while working on the Manhattan Project for playing pranks on military guards using a hole in the security fence. And safe-cracking.
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