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THE MILLION POUND PIGEON

What would you do with a million pounds? Buy a yacht? Move into a mansion? Feed starving refugees? You probably wouldn’t think of spending it on a pigeon. But in 2019 a Chinese businessman did exactly that, when he spent £1.1 million on a Belgian bird called Armando.

To the untrained eye he doesn’t look that different to the scruffy ‘rats

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