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TIL that the first tanks carried two pigeons for sending messages. The pigeons were thrown from dedicated hatches in the armor with short messages attached to them and flew back to headquarters.

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oRBGE TIL The Blue Angels, the U.S. Flight Navy Demonstration Squadron, formed in April 1946 as the Navy Flight Exhibition Team. They changed their name after seeing the New York nightclub, The Blue Angel. The team was first introduced as the Blue Angels during an air show in July 1946.
loaXA TIL Oregon was the only state admitted into the Union (year 1859) with an exclusion law written in its constitution, which forbade black people from living within its borders.
ME9K TIL in the late 19th Century, a woman named Nellie Bly became an investigative journalist, had herself committed to expose poor conditions at mental institutions, traveled the world in under 80 days, married a millionaire, and became an industrialist.
BQEk TIL that Nicolas Flamel, said in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to have been 665 years old and to have created the stone, actually existed, wrote about alchemical secrets, and would have been ~665 years old when the book had been written if he did not die.
gM48y TIL The album cover of Rush ‘Moving Pictures’ is meant as a triple entendre; it shows movers who are carrying pictures. On the side, people are shown crying because the pictures passing by are emotionally "moving". The back cover has a film crew making a motion picture of the whole scene.