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BIZARRE WARTIME EXPERIMENTS
World War II's strangest plan: US spies wanted to use radioactive foxes against Japan but then an experiment went completely wrongDuring World War II, American spies came up with an unusual plan to scare Japan using radioactive foxes. The scheme involved secret experim...- An Idaho game warden in 1948 put a male beaver named ‘Geronimo’ in a parachute box and dropped it from a plane; 76 beavers later faced the same fate and eventually transformed a landscapeIdaho's game wardens introduced an innovative approach in the late 1940s, using parachutes to relocate beavers. They engineered unique boxe...
- A Harvard psychologist in 1943 wanted pigeons to guide missiles during World War II. Eight decades later, it earned him an Ig Nobel Peace PrizeDuring World War II, B.F. Skinner developed Project Pigeon to guide missiles. Trained pigeons pecked at screens, steering weapons toward en...
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