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Chioke, Pane of Glass

Everything is Alive

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The Bat Bomb

During World War II, the US military wanted to develop a bomb made of bats. They went out to bat caves with nets and they captured like thousands of bats. And then they built a kind of bomb shell that they could put 1000 bats in. The idea was a plane would fly over the city and it would drop the bat bomb. All the bats would scatter all over town and look for shelter at dawn.

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