[Weapons fact 1] In 2006, a teacher (Jencie Fagan) stopped a school shooter by hugging the shooter. The shooter dropped the gun, and the teacher held him firmly against her until other teachers arrived to help.
[Weapons fact 2] The first man-made object to reach the stratosphere was a meter long shell fired from the Paris Gun, used by the Germans in World War 1 to bombard Paris from 80 miles away. The curvature of the earth had to be considered when calculating where the shells would land.
[Weapons fact 3] 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.
[Weapons fact 4] During World War 2, the Soviet Union trained dogs to blow up German tanks. Their usage was later discontinued, as the dogs tended to ran back to the familiar smell of Soviet soldiers and tanks, killing them instead.
[Weapons fact 5] Japanese scientists had planned to conduct a test of a nuclear weapon near Hungnam on 12 August 1945, which would have been 6 days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
[Weapons fact 6] In 1962, John F. Kennedy wanted to create a nuclear economy which would have made viable massive desalination plants. Getting freshwater from saltwater “would really dwarf any other scientific accomplishments.”
[Weapons fact 7] The ice pick used to kill Leon Trotsky is on display at the International Spy Museum in Washington, District of Columbia.
[Weapons fact 8] In 1962, an intruder climbing the fence at a Minnesota air base set off the "sabotage alarm" in all bases in the area. In one base, due to wrong wiring, the Klaxon was sounded ordering nuclear-armed aircraft to take off, and the pilots believed World War 3 has started. The original intruder was a bear.
[Weapons fact 9] Between 1964 and 1973, USA dropped 260 million bombs in Laos, a country smaller than Michigan. The number of bombs dropped there is larger than bombs dropped on Europe during the whole of World War 2.
[Weapons fact 10] Two 6-year olds were suspended from school for playing cops and robbers and forming their fingers into an imaginary gun
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