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• [War fact 1] During WWII, L Ron Hubbard once led a 68 hour battle against two Japanese submarines which he claimed: "definitely sunk, beyond doubt". An analysis later concluded that there were never any submarines in the area.

  History, People, Warsource

• [War fact 2] Cold War spy satellites from the 1960s took pictures of 10,000 ancient cities and ruins in the Middle East which nobody knew existed until they were re-examined in 2014. The images were made before modern cities overran many archaeological sites.

  Places, Space, Technology, Warsource

• [War fact 3] During the Great Papago Escape, 25 German POWs (primarily naval personnel) dug their way out of a Phoenix POW camp in hopes to ride the rapids of the Gila River down to Mexico. It never occurred to the prisoners that most rivers in Arizona run dry.

  Prison, Warsource

• [War fact 4] In 480 B.C., King Xerxes I of Persia built bridges to invade Greece, but a storm destroyed these bridges. Enraged, he threw chains in the sea, whipped the sea 300 times, and burned it with red-hot irons as his men shouted at the water. The next bridge he built was not destroyed.

  History, Warsource

• [War fact 5] German flying ace Heinrich Ehrler during World War 2 shot down two bombers and rammed the last one, destroying both planes in the process. His last words were “Theo, Heinrich here. Have just shot down two bombers. No more ammunition. I’m going to ram. Auf Wiedersehen, see you in Valhalla!”

  Death, Warsource

• [War fact 6] The man who killed and ate the last Indochinese tiger in China was sentenced to 12 years in jail.

  History, Prison, War

• [War fact 7] Over 90,000 Chinese laborers were used by the British Army to dig trenches on the Western Front in WWI.

  Countries, People, Warsource

• [War fact 8] El Cid was a military leader in the middle ages who was so feared that, after his death, his embalmed body was placed on a horse and sent into battle causing the enemy to flee.

  Death, Warsource

• [War fact 9] Tanforan Racetrack which is 10 miles south of San Francisco, was used as an internment camp and forced detention processing center for Japanese Americans during World War 2. It’s now a shopping mall.

  Places, Warsource

• [War fact 10] Bruce Dickinson (lead singer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden) and his then-solo band drove through the front lines of the war in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war. They weren't protected and there were bullets flying around. They played a show for the people trapped in the city.

  Music, Warsource

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