In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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Only 8% of the world’s currency is physical money. The rest exists only on computers.
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McDonald's serves 75 hamburgers every second, according to the company’s Operations and Training Manual.
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If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea.
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A surprise inspection of a men’s prison in Acapulco unearthed 100 plasma TVs, 2 sacks of marijuana, 2 peacocks, 100 cockerels… and 25 women.
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If every muscle in your body could pull in one direction, you could lift nearly 25 tons.
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