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Opj7 TIL that the WWI Native American code talkers lacked words for modern-day military terms. They used “big gun” for artillery, “little gun shoot fast” for machine gun, “stone” for grenade and “scalps” for casualties, etc.
OGBje TIL That the skeletons in the pool scene in Poltergeist were real human skeletons.
LwAV TIL that in 2007 the British Army was forced to deny that they had released man-eating badgers into Iraq.
1Vld TIL that a young French soldier requested service in the Russian military and was rejected twice. That young man was Napoleon Bonaparte.
geML TIL Belize was once ruled by a “snake dynasty.” A 1,300-year-old burial chamber holds the clues to a forgotten empire.