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7: No Such Thing As The Loch Ness Monster

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The History of the Parachute Jump

The war office have made radio appeals in 1941 for people to give up their dogs. Lots of people used it as an opportunity to just get rid of their dogs. The first training was to jump out of the plane with a bit of meat in your pocket And then I think for someone else to throw the dog from the plane It's actually slightly crueler than that they used to starve the dogs. They were given the same parachutes that the parachute is used to drop bicycles over the battle field and you can if you peddle it right.

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