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TIL Mike Tyson loved keeping pigeons as a kid and the first fight he ever got into was when a thug ripped the head off one of his birds. He said, “The pigeon was the first thing I ever loved in my life. I don’t know why, I feel ridiculous trying to explain it. Pigeons are just so much like people.”

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