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TIL that carrier pigeons only know how to fly back to their home base. The infrastructure that supported this messaging system required regular deliveries of birds between cities and regular release of the birds so they did not imprint on a new location.

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6EBrW TIL In 2006, The original 100 year old plaque from The Big Apple Jazz Club in Harlem (from which New York City gets its nickname) was rescued from the trash when a Popeyes fast food restaurant tore down the original building.
DQxYj TIL Duck is considered a red meat by culinary standards.
nWlyP Today I learned McDonald's french fries supposedly tasted better prior to 1990. That is when McDonald's stopped using beef fat and began using vegetable oil with beef seasoning(making the fried not vegan or vegetarian).
RYO8 TIL that Helen Keller and Mark Twain were good friends, and he got his rich friends to pay for her education at Radcliffe.
Jdbv TIL during the Berlin Airlift, the allies became so efficient that they landed a plane in West Berlin every 30 seconds, humiliating the Soviets and showing that a city could be sustained indefinitely by air alone.