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TIL Nickola Tesla fell madly in love with a white pigeon which “he claimed to love as much as any man would love a woman.”

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LkV9P TIL that during the Cold War, USA considered airdropping enormous condoms labeled “Medium” into USSR, to demoralize them against an anatomically superior American Army.
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