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TIL the Coast Guard trained pigeons to assist in finding people lost at sea. They sat in a dome attached to a helicopter, pressing a lever after spotting life preservers or debris. They had a 90% success rate in initial trials.

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Ep5x TIL after the release of Die Another Day, Pierce Brosnan was approached by a man in a Dublin bar who asked to shake his hand. He complied and then cracked up when the man said, “That’s the closest my hand will ever get to Halle Berry’s ass.”
XmaQ TIL that the Nazis tried to build a Super-weapon named the V3 cannon, with a range of 165km and the potential to hit London in 2 minutes with it’s 310lb armament. An installation of 25 guns was in the final stages of construction when it was destroyed by the famous RAF Dambusters.
rRNe1 TIL That everyone is related and your most distant relative possible, among everyone on earth, is approximately 70th cousin.
lWX5 TIL that John F. Kennedy was assassinated 52 years ago today. The last thing he heard before he died was Texas Governor John Connally’s wife Nellie saying “Mr. President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you.”
b9MlQ TIL that clonally transmissible cancers exist. These cancers can be transmitted between individuals without the involvement of an infectious agent (unlike e.g. HPV-associated cervical cancer). They are very rare in humans but more common in dogs, Tasmanian devils and clams.