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TIL Rudyard Kipling urged his 18-year-old son John to join WWI. He had such bad eyesight that he was repeatedly turned down. Kipling used his friendship with the Commander-In-Chief of the Army to get him in. John was sent into battle, where an exploding shell ripped his face apart.

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