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TIL US Navy’s tried to use pigeon to pilot bomb using grain of food sticked to boat images

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a8Y0N TIL Ciabatta was invented in 1982 to compete with imported baguettes.
dGpr TIL The Beatles “I Want To Hold Your Hand” is often misheard in Japan as “Ahonahōnyōhan”, meaning “Idiotic public urination”.
E1DRw TIL In Samoa it is illegal to forget your wife’s birthday.
GYoLg TIL that in 1942 a dental surgeon from Pennsylvania USA wrote to the White House suggesting the use of incendiary bombs attached to bats, what ensued was $2 million dollars in research and a burnt down Air Force base.
Bg4jy TIL there are approximately only 6,674 cheetahs in the wild today and only 5% of cheetah cubs make it to adulthood. The key factors of their decline are habitat loss, exotic pet industry, poaching for their skin, and conflicts with farmers. Currently, they exist only 10% of their historic range.