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• [Weapons fact 1]  In 1880, an Australian outlaw and his gang (Ned Kelly) smithed steel suits out of ploughshares and held off the Victorian Police with their bulletproof armor

  People, Weapons source

• [Weapons fact 2]  The "whistling" noise used to indicate bombs falling in movies and TV shows is almost always the wrong way round. Anyone underneath a bomb that made such a sound (only specific WW2-era bombs) would hear the pitch increasing as it got closer, not decreasing, due to the Doppler effect.

  Music, Weapons source

• [Weapons fact 3]  The Canadian Rangers are a 5,000 strong wing of the Canadian military reserves made up mostly of First Nation personnel. They provide a military presence in the most remote Canadian regions, act as guides and scouts for the Army, and until 2018 were still issued World War 2 vintage rifles.

  Military, Weapons source

• [Weapons fact 4]  Boxing trainer Teddy Atlas put a gun to 15 Year Old Mike Tyson's head and threatened to kill him after Tyson groped Teddy's 12-Year-Old relative.

  Actors, Places, Weapons source

• [Weapons fact 5]  Adrian Carton de Wiart was a veteran of 4 wars. He was shot in the stomach, groin, head, hand, ankle, hip, and leg. He once chewed off a few of his own fingers, survived two plane crashes, and lost an eye all during the wars he fought.

  Military, Weapons source

• [Weapons fact 6]  On 18 May 1990, an English doctor named Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora died in the Lockerbie bombing, took a fake bomb on board a British Airways from London Heathrow to New York JFK and then on a flight from New York JFK to Boston to show that airline security had not improved.

  Travel, Weapons source

• [Weapons fact 7]  After the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, the striking miners feared jail and confiscation of their guns, so many decided to hide their weapons in the woods before leaving Logan County. Collectors and researchers are still finding weapons and ammunition hidden around the site to this day.

  War, Weapons source

• [Weapons fact 8]  A drunk hunter named Daniel Carson Lewis singlehandedly caused a 285,000-gallon oil spill in 2001 by shooting the Trans-Alaska Pipeline with a .338-caliber rifle.

  Actors, Finance, Disaster, People, Weapons source

• [Weapons fact 9]  A year before the end of World War 1, Germany lodged an official complaint with the United States over the issuing of the Winchester M97 "Trench Broom" shotgun to its' troops. This gun upset the Germans so much that the German military issued a kill order towards any troops carrying either shotguns or shotgun ammunition.

  War, Weapons source

• [Weapons fact 10]  During the height of the Cold War, the combination authorizing nuclear missile launch was "00000000."

  Countries, War, Weapons source

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