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Pigeon Trap
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  At one point, Penzias and Wilson thought that pigeon droppings inside their horn-shaped antenna were the cause of the peculiar readings they were getting. They put pigeon traps like this inside their device in an attempt to eliminate the 'noise.'

Credit: Eric Long, Smithsonian Institution
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