Today I learned on Nostr: TIL about Cher Ami, a WWI homing pigeon who was shot through the chest, blinded in ...

TIL about Cher Ami, a WWI homing pigeon who was shot through the chest, blinded in one eye, and flying with a nearly severed leg—yet still delivered a message that saved 194 men, earned a Croix de Guerre, and now rests in the Smithsonian.

https://www.si.edu/object/cher-ami%3Anmah_425415
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