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TIL Homing pigeons are often mistakenly called carrier pigeons. In fact, they are two different breeds of pigeons. The carrier pigeon was bred for its beauty and the homing pigeon, for its speed and ability to always return home

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E17ow TIL: about the strange case of Bella the unidentified woman found dead inside a hollow tree in WW2. No one has ever been charged with her murder and no one is sure who she was although rumours speculated that she was a spy, she was killed by witches and that she was a a missing prostitute.
mxAMx TIL that the Cornish language became extinct but is now being revived by a growing number of enthusiasts.
Br8bx TIL “no two people have identical prints” is a myth that has still never been proven.
9YRvQ TIL that King Alfonso XIII of Spain was King immediately after being born, since his father Alfonso XII had died aged just 28, while the Queen was still pregnant.
YGaB TIL Isaac Newton’s Principia, one of the most significant scientific works in history, was nearly left unpublished, as the Royal Society had already spent all their funds printing the hugely unsuccessful ‘History of Fish’