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TIL of Commando the war pigeon, who conducted over 90 missions in German-occupied France. He was awarded the Dickin Medal, the highest honour for an animal.

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XEOpR TIL while filming “X-Men:Origins Wolverine,” Hugh Jackman had to run down a hallway naked with prop claws attached to his fists. As he turned the corner he faced every women on the production staff waving dollar bills. He instinctively shielded his groin and cut himself with Wolverine’s claws.
yVxr8 TIL that in 1970 Congress tried to cut off all funding for U.S. military operations in Cambodia, directly challenging President Nixon’s war powers.
W7ayd TIL the creators of the AriZona Beverage Company are from New York and at the time had never been to the state of Arizona or even west of the Mississippi River
kJjdg TIL that the Mount Tambora eruption had an explosive yield of 33 gigatons of TNT, 60 times more powerful than all nuclear weapons tests combined.
J4Kk TIL that there’s an edition of Windows called “Windows XP™ for Submarines”, and it’s run on the United Kingdom’s nuclear missile submarines