December 05, 2022
In 1958 Chairman Mao led a campaign to eliminate the sparrow from China, reasoning that the bird was a grain-stealing pest. However, the sparrow also ate insects. As the sparrow population declined, the locust population exploded, devastating crops for years.
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Nikola Tesla’s Weird Obsession with Pigeons
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American engineer and physicist known for his groundbreaking work in electric power. He is considered a genius, with numerous patents to his name, but he had an eccentric side that many people found difficult. Among Tesla’s quirks was his fondness for pigeons. When living
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