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TIL Brazil has never been on the losing side of a war.

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Zpx8D TIL famous psychologist B.F.Skinner trained street pigeons to guide rockets by training them to recognize the pattern of a target, and to peck when they saw the target. As the pigeons pecked, cables harnessed to each one’s head would mechanically steer the missile until it finally reached its mark.
KY0RR TIL Link Wray’s 1958 instrumental "Rumble" was banned in several US radio markets, because the term 'rumble' was a slang term for a gang fight, and it was feared that the piece's harsh sound glorified juvenile delinquency. The song is the only instrumental single ever banned from radio in the USA.
0wgLA TIL that Einstein never received a Nobel prize for relativity and he did not attend his prize giving, Despite being informed that he was about to receive the prize, he chose to continue with a lecture tour of Japan, because he simply no longer valued it.
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kKJ1 TIL A King in China died because he kept crying wolf. He would light signal flairs for his Army to come help and when they did, he would laugh at them. He did this to make his consort laugh. When he needed help no one showed up.