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TIL during WWII, the U.S. developed bat bombs, attaching napalm to hibernating Mexican free-tailed bats to ignite Japanese cities. Tested in 1942-43, the project caused accidental fires in US military camps but was canceled in 1944 for the atomic bomb

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