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Prison Pigeons

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Watch this Reuters video to see how Brazilian prison inmates tamed carrier pigeons to fly drugs and cellphones in and out of prison. Guards spotted a few birds with backpacks. The Egyptians and the Persians first used carrier pigeons 3,000 years ago.

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