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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Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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In 2007, a Bosnian couple found out that they had been cheating on one another in online chatrooms... with each other.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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