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nWvPo TIL the British had a theory that there was a race of people that were more subservient, intellectually inferior and better for recruiting for their army called the martial race.
XEgAP TIL about Pals Battalions. British army units consisting of men from the same town or profession during the First World War. They were created as a way to boost morale. They did not take into account that almost the entire male population of a town would be wiped out in a single battle.
Oo4Ze TIL during the first world war more American soldiers died of the Spanish flu than those who died of combat