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TIL that Project Pigeon was America's attempt to develop a pigeon-controlled guided bomb during WWII

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oRmG8 TIL Margaret Thatcher had a habit of marking her territory by swinging her handbag around in meetings, leading to the term "handbagging", a term that made its way into the Oxford English Dictionary
E1jxP TIL that Beethoven didn't know how to read a metronome and that's why his tempo indications are slower than what feels right (+-12bpm). After decades of theorising about it, turns out he was just writing down the number on the bottom of the metronome's upper weight, not the top.
x5O5 TIL that a Chinese Billionaire is selling canned air in China to highlight the country’s pollution problems. The air is collected and compressed in soda cans from “revolutionary regions” around the country.
WP1A TIL that in the Looney Tunes universe, the mouse Speedy Gonzales has a cousin named Slowpoke Rodriguez whose possible marijuana habit is alluded to in an episode from 1962.
ZpVpB TIL the most successful pirate in history is a woman