40 War-Tastic Bits of Trivia About War and the Warring Warmongers Who Wage It

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40 War-Tastic Bits of Trivia About War and the Warring Warmongers Who Wage It

Welcome to the ABCs of armies, battles and conflicts. See what we did there? We could go all the way to “zero point,” but we’ll just get to the facts. It seems like humans have disagreements with other humans, and it can unfortunately escalate to all-out war. 

Let this list act as a reminder to bury some hatchets and try to live with as little conflict as possible. Drop the ego, hug it out and don’t get yourself involved with all this war hullabaloo.

The Civil War’s Death Toll

CRACKED MASS OVER 2% OF AMERICANS WERE KILLED DURING THE CIVIL WAR. 620,000 people died during the war, or around one in four people involved in battle.

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The Battle of Agincourt

At the 1415 Battle of Agincourt, where the English army, mostly archers, devastated a vastly superior force of French knights, many of the victorious

Stalin’s Human-Ape Super Soldier

CRACKED STALIN'S HUMAN-APE SUPER-SOLDIER In the mid-1920s, Stalin wanted scientists to create a kind of super-soldier by mixing humans and apes. Не wanted a living war machine that could do hard work without complaining. It was like something out of Planet of the Apes.

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U.S. Army Base in Greenland

There's a decaying, abandoned WWII US army base in the landscape of Greenland. The abandoned equipment includes about 10,000 rusted and leaking fuel barrels, which the locals charmingly call American Flowers. CRACKED.COM

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The U.S. Air Force

The US Air Force got adjustable seats and equipment thanks to one guy. His job was to calculate average pilot dimensions, but soon figured out that equipment designed for an average pilot would fit no current pilot. CRACKED.COM

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The Last Solider to Die in World War I

The last French soldier to die in WWI was killed 15 minutes before the ceasefire. Не was delivering a mes- sage to his unit that soup would be served for lunch. The French Army recorded the date of his death as earlier by one day, out of embarrassment. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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Grenades

WEIRD WORLD A grenade was found among the potatoes on a chip factory conveyor belt. The WWII era grenade, which has since been confirmed as being a training grenade which didn't contain explosives, is believed to have been dug up during harvesting on a farm in Matamata. CRACKED.COM

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Joseph Medicine Crow

Joseph Medicine Crow became the last Plains Indian war chief during WWII. CRACKED.COM Joseph completed all four required tasks while fight- ing in Europe, including touching an enemy soldier, stealing his weapon, lead- ing a successful war party, and stealing an enemy's horse.

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Milton Rubenfeld

Paul Reubens' dad was a founder of the Israeli Air Force. Milton Rubenfeld was a U.S. Army Air Force stunt pilot during WWll. When the Arab-Israeli Wa

Patton

THE OSCAR WINNER The WWII biopic Patton was filled with epic, energetic battle scenes. REALITY THE Where Axis and Allied forces drove the same tanks.

The Civil War

The last civil war widow died in 2020. She married a former soldier in 1936 when she was 19 and he was 91.

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World War I

Belgrade's Ruzica Church was built with WWI weapons and ammo. When the church was rebuilt in 1925 after WWI CRACY damage, they decided to turn it into

Fort Phoenix

Pokemon GO players damaged a historic Revolution-era fort. Fort Phoenix was the site of the first Revolutionary War naval battle, and in 2016 attracte

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