[Military fact 1] On February 24, 1942, the US Military ordered a total blackout of Los Angeles and fired 1,400 anti-air artillery and thousands of .50 caliber shots at a hovering object for 1 hour.
[Military fact 2] Russia opened a "Military Disneyland" that will allow guests to shoot military grade weapons and try out various military simulators.
[Military fact 3] In the US being clean shaven became popular after troops returned as heroes from WWI they had been required to shave so gas masks would securely fit.
[Military fact 4] Last surviving veteran of the American Revolutionary War was Lemuel Cook, who died in 1866 at 106 years. He lived long enough to see the end of the Civil War.
[Military fact 5] In 1972, some of Aircraft Carrier USS Ranger's crew carried out two-dozen acts of sabotage to prevent the ship from returning to Vietnam.
[Military fact 6] Prussian King Frederick William I had a regiment of very tall men, known as the "Potsdam Giants". The taller they were, the more they were paid - and they were paired with tall women, to breed giant soldiers. However, they were never sent on active service, as they were considered too valuable.
[Military fact 7] The record for most passengers ever carried by a commercial airliner is 1,088, by an El Al Boeing 747 during Operation Solomon, which involved the evacuation of Ethiopian Jews from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and started on 24 May 1991. This figure included two babies born on the flight.
[Military fact 8] Comedian-actor Harold Ramis successfully dodged the Vietnam draft by taking meth just before his physical.
[Military fact 9] Switzerland shot down both Allied and Axis aircraft during World War 2.
[Military fact 10] South Korea's military deployed robotic sentries armed (Samsung SGR-A1) with machine guns and grenade launchers. The system was designed to replace human-oriented guarding along the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
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