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TIL that between 2008 and 2010, the Iraqi government were scammed into spending over $40 million on fake bomb detectors - the ADE 651

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KxpG TIL that baby birds will spend a few days on the ground before flying. If you find a baby bird on the ground, it probably doesn’t need to be rescued!
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