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  • [Military fact 1] Frederick Douglass consulted with President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and helped influence the Emancipation Proclamation. After President Lincoln’s death, Mrs. Lincoln sent Douglass her late husband’s walking stick.

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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] In 1996, the Irish Republican Army planted a bomb in Manchester City center and told the authorities they had an hour to evacuate the area. The police successfully managed to evacuate 75,000 people in what has been called the most 'extraordinary policing operations' in United Kingdom history. There wasn't a single fatality.

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  • [Military fact 4] M&Ms were invented in 1941 as a means for soldiers to enjoy chocolate without it melting. During the war, the candy was sold exclusively to the military.

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  • [Military fact 5] David Robinson, one of the 50 greatest NBA players of all time, graduated from the Naval Academy and was drafted into the NBA in 1987 but waited two years to enter so he could fulfill his service contract to the Navy.

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  • [Military fact 6] During WWI, a Hungarian soldier named Paul Kern was shot in the frontal lobe, resulting in him being unable to fall asleep. He lived for years after that and no one really knows how.

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  • [Military fact 7] Lyndall Scott Russell, a military wife who invested $315 in 15 shares of an insurance company in 1950. The insurance company became Safeco, and after 9 stock splits and dividends reinvested, her $315 investment turned into over 33000 shares making her a multimillionaire.

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  • [Military fact 8] The Black Knight in Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail was inspired by two Roman wrestlers who were in a very intense and entangled fight. After one surrendered from the pain of a broken rib, an attendant picked up the winner, tapping him and saying “You won” to discover that he was dead.

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  • [Military fact 9] The notion of gremlins was first conceptualized during WW2 when mechanical failures in aircraft were jokingly blamed on the small monsters.

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  • [Military fact 10] The Air Force learned that by flying its C-17s in a large V formation similar to geese, they saved more than 10% of fuel or millions of dollars.

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