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Hello world, hows everyone?
Monday here again and that means useless facts.
“Almost” is the longest word you can make in the English language with all the letters in the correct alphabeticl order.
In 1976 a South American Guppy became the first fish in space.
In 1870 the city of Paris was under seige, people could only get messages out via pigeons.
Parisians photographed important messages than shrank the photos to a fraction of their size using a new process called “microphotography”. They stuffed tiny microphotographs into a quill which they tied to a pigeon's tail feathers.
Only one in twenty pigeons got out of Paris safely but each one carried no less than 3,200 messages.
If our internet is disconnected, all communication will be cut off.
ReplyDeleteHow clever people were back in France to get their messages out.
ReplyDeleteGreat facts! I saw a documentary on pigeons a year or two ago, they're very intelligent birds. Impressive work on their part!
ReplyDeleteNancy......Oh yeah
ReplyDeleteMargaret......I know, they were
Kea.........Doesn't surpeise me about the pigeons
As badly as they bungled that war, surprised they came up with something that clever. Sure bet that Louis Napoleon or his generals didn't think of it.
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