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Jindujun t1_jdt0bzh wrote

seagulls are brutal. A few years ago i saw a small flock of jackdaw fighting with a small flock of seagulls. The jackdaw were attacking the seagulls trying to defend a young chick and one of the larger seagulls rushed in, swallowed the chick and then the seagulls flew away with the jackdaws in pursuit. Never seen anything like it, but it was awesome.

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Banner80 t1_jdt01p1 wrote

Desperate to keep the tower going, in 1908 they figured out that the metal monstrosity had a radio antenna range of 6,000 km (3,728 miles). A distance so great it can pick up signals all the way to China.

The tower was granted a life extension in 1910, and it gets equipped with new radio capabilities. 4 years later in 1914, the tower is catching and decoding German war messages.

https://www.snexplores.org/article/how-science-saved-eiffel-tower

On the verge of losing a broken Paris to imminent German invasion, the tower heard transmissions about the Germans having difficulty and delaying their attack. The French used this knowledge to stop retreating and instead start an immediate counter offensive. They saved Paris and turned the tide of the war, in a battle known as the Miracle of the Marne.

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a_white_american_guy t1_jdsxnpv wrote

I watched one of these idiot fly straight into a stop sign in front of a clam window at old orchard beach. BANG and then it fell to the ground. Me and everyone else in line went to check out the embarrassed moron and poured water on its beak for a few minutes. After a few he got up, stumbled around, vomited, and then flew away.

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