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A spy who worked as a double agent for the Nazis and the United Kingdom during World War II. Henry Gunther: The last man to die in World War I, and quite possibly the dumbest. Simo Häyhä: Showed some extraordinary Finnish sisu in the Winter War against the Soviets. Ice cream barge: Warning! Delicious creamy goodness ahead! Kamikaze
The Vietnam War goes by a lot of names around the world, including The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict, and, in Japan, The Resistance Against America. Milan Krasula/istockphoto 35.
The World War II machine gun nest after being fully excavated. In 1945, near the last few months of World War II, the village of Chocholná-Velčice was located along the front lines for about two ...
BSc meteorologist Janice Davila tells Bored Panda that one of the most unknown facts from her field of expertise is that weather radars are slightly tilted upward in a half-degree (1/2°) angle.
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers. [1] Conventionally, the term is reserved for two major international conflicts that occurred during the first half of the 20th century, World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), although some historians have also characterized other global conflicts as world wars, such as the Nine ...
And it's just one of many very strange but fascinating tidbits that can be found on the Weird Facts IG page. Over 1.2 million people follow the account for their daily dose of oddly interesting ...
A meme from World War II. Bobby Leach: Went over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survived, attempted to swim the rapids under it and survived... then died after slipping on an orange peel. Li Guangchang: A Chinese man who founded a cult and declared himself Emperor of China in the 1980s. Madagascar Plan