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• [Military fact 1] The US Army during World War 2 developed a grenade (T13 Beano Grenade) the same size and shape as a baseball, to make it more effective for the soldiers who had grown up playing baseball.

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• [Military fact 2] In 2006, a soldier named Ross A. McGinnis was manning the gunner's hatch of his unit's Humvee when an insurgent threw a grenade inside. Instead of leaping to safety, McGinnis shouted a warning, jumped inside and threw himself on the grenade. He was killed instantly, saving his team. He was 19.

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• [Military fact 3] Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, starred in a Pizza Hut commercial.

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• [Military fact 4] The U.S. military has used superstition and pretended to be vampires and ghosts to scare enemies away. They dispersed scary horoscopes in Germany, staged vampire attacks in the Philippines, and in Vietnam blasted ghost tapes that consisted of spooky music and eerie voices. Only vampires worked.

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• [Military fact 5] During the Korean War, a British soldier named Bill Speakman led a series of grenade-hurling assaults against waves of Chinese soldiers attacking his post. When he ran out of grenades, he began hurling beer bottles, giving his unit enough time to retreat and stood his ground until he ran out of things to throw.

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• [Military fact 6] A Canadian military veteran amputee named Paul Franklin had to submit annual paperwork to prove his legs were still missing in order to continue his disability benefits.

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• [Military fact 7] In 1941, the RAF dropped packages containing tea bags over the German occupied Netherlands. The packages were marked, "Holland will rise again... Keep your chins up."

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• [Military fact 8] Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a Japanese military leader who unified Japan and became the de facto leader of Japan, was never granted the title of Shogun because he had no traceable samurai lineage, and his father was an ashigaru – a peasant employed by the samurai as a foot soldier.

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• [Military fact 9] The 101st Airborne was nicknamed "The Chicken Men" by the NVA and the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War because their Eagle insignia looked like a chicken. North Vietnamese commander was warned to not fight with the “The Chicken Men”, because you will surely lose the battle.

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• [Military fact 10] Operation Looking Glass was a 24-hour a day, continuously airborne command center capable of directing all of the United States' nuclear assets as a backup, should SAC's ground facilities be destroyed. Taking turns, the airplanes stayed continuously staffed for 29 years.

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