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TIL: Cher Ami Was a WWI Hero & Also a Pigeon

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xVdGw TIL that there is a chemical that smells so bad, a single drop forced the evacuation of an entire city in 1889.
6EkDJ TIL a sea lion named Rhonda once escaped from an urban zoo in Providence, RI and was never recovered. She made her way through a few park lakes, traveled over two miles on land, scaled small walls and got to a river that flowed into a bay and eventually the ocean.
KOQGB TIL, China is responsible for the majority of plastic waste in the ocean, the Yangtze alone dumps 1.5 million metric tons into the Yellow Sea per year.
GYxbJ TIL in Texas, there is an anti-crime law that states that criminals who intend on committing a crime must give their victims oral or written 24-hours advance notice. They must also include the nature of the crime.
p8O98 TIL Michael Phelps' lungs can store twice as much oxygen compared to the average person