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Y5Ev TIL That during WWII, a research program tried to train pigeons to guide missiles. Pigeons would follow the image, pecking at it, which would move the screen on its pivots. The program was shutdown, with the lead researcher stating:“Our problem was no one would take us seriously.”
gMyN7 TIL that Spain was pro-Hitler and provided volunteer forces to help Hitler fend off the USSR
9YVKD TIL: That Cusco, the ancient capital of the Incan Empire, literally means bellybutton as the incas thought their capital to be "the bellybutton of the world".
mxJGx TIL our solar system is currently traveling through an interstellar cloud that is as hot as the surface of the sun and 30 light years long. It is thought to have entered the region at some point between 44000 and 150000 years ago and is expected to remain within it for another 10000 to 20000 years.
RE97 TIL that when Queen Elizabeth’s children were pressured to evacuate to Canada during WWII, she declared, “The children won’t go without me. I won’t leave without the King. And the King will never leave.”