TIL Psychologist B.F. Skinner tried to train pigeons to serve as guides for bombing runs in WWII. After canceling the project, he successfully taught the pigeons to play ping pong instead.
https://www.biography.com/scientists/bf-skinner
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https://www.biography.com/scientists/bf-skinner
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B.F. Skinner
American psychologist B.F. Skinner is best known for developing the theory of behaviorism, and for his utopian novel 'Walden Two.'Biography
