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TIL that a Dove is just a white Pigeon.

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8adBa TIL the CIA paid magician John Mulholland $3,000 to write a spy manual of trickery and deception as part of the top-secret MKUltra project, a CIA program that investigated mind control. Mulholland’s 1953 guide was supposed to be destroyed in the 1970s but an archived copy reappeared decades later.
awdEy Today I Learned the ambulance service in most towns used to be ran by the funeral home. So if you needed to be taken to the hospital, you called the funeral home, and they’d use their hearse to transport you to the hospital (until purpose built ambulances became available in the late ‘60s & ‘70s).
adlo TIL An Irish rebel died in 1798…while wielding a 2500 year old sword.
omdL TIL That the reason penguins waddle is because it is the most efficient way to move so they burn less fat.
8eyP TIL the oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117