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Welcome to Aaron Menke's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of IHeart Radio and grim and mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosities.

Have you ever thought much about the common pigeon?

If you've spent any time in a major city, you've likely seen more of them than any other

kind of bird.

Many dismiss them as a nuisance, rats with wings that exist to snatch crumbs from the trash,

barely better than a pest.

What we think of today as the common pigeon is more officially known as the rock dove, a sort of bird that

originally was well suited to rocky coastal areas. And throughout human history, we've realized

that they are a versatile bird, suited to all manner of tasks. In 1840s, Germany, an apothecary

owner named Neubraner realized this very thing. Carrier pigeons had been employed

for centuries by kings, army commanders, and spies, but Neubrarner was the rare small businessman

who figured out a way to make them useful in his small community. He distributed carrier pigeons

to doctors in his city of Cronberg and told the doctors to send the pigeons back to him when they gave

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