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Thread dedicated to memes, jokes, poetry or any fun stuff related to spy pigeon.
First some fun facts:
Stamp for early Pigeon-Gram service(1898 to 1908)
First some fun facts:
- Homing pigeons have been recorded to fly as long as 1800 kms and upto 90km/h(in short distance race)
- Sultan Nour Eddin had regular messenger service between bagdad and syria using homing pigeons
- Pigeon mail service have been used as recently as 1980s by french and british
- In Indian eastern state Orissa, pigeons were used during natural calamity upto 2002.
- Talibans banned keeping/use of homing pigeons
Stamp for early Pigeon-Gram service(1898 to 1908)
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