Random Useless Facts Thread

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Near the end of WW2, the US Army and German Wehrmacht both teamed up to storm a Waffen-SS controlled castle to rescue French prisoners. This was the only time that Americans and Nazi’s were on the same side during the war.
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At Christmas 1914, both sides at World War 1 called a ceasefire to play games and exchange gifts.
 
This fact is not useless, as it is a symbol of humanities good side showing itself even in the brutal grey of war, and for that, it should be remembered for generations to come.
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@ILoveMyoozik
 
@Moonatik  
I’m just imagining how heart-breaking it must have been for both sides. Like the one day of the year you stop fighting, and you get to exchange gifts and play football, and actually act like friends to people you have been told are the enemies… and then the next day, you both have to go back to a very brutal war, and possibly end up killing the man you whished a Merry Christmas… :(
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And now I am reminded of that post about a WW1 solider leaving his bike resting in a tree, because he thought the war was only going to take about a week or so and he would be able to go back to get it… :(
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Staying on topic…
 
During the Christmas Truce of 1914, one German unit was discussing whether to meet the British in the opposing trench when their corporal shouted: “Such a thing should not happen in wartime! Have you no sense of honour left at all?”
 
Oh, by the way, the corporal’s name was Adolf Hitler.
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During the retreat form the Gallipoli Campaign, the ANZAC forces were able to make a successful retreat by making the Ottomans fire at dummy soldier’s as they used a pressure system using water canteens to fire their rifles, distracting the Ottomans while they escaped (how it worked, was that one canteen had a small hole in it, with the water dripping itno the empty canteen at the bottom. Once the bottom canteen had enough water, the weight of it would pull the trigger of the rifle it was tied to. Due to each canteen setting off the rifle with varying amounts of water, this provided the effect of simulating random rifle fire)
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In Call of Duty Black Ops, there was a cut mission that would take place after finishing the game, which would have involved your player character being revealed to have been the one that assassinated JFK.
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In Call of Duty Black Ops, there was a cut mission that would take place after finishing the game, which would have involved your player character being revealed to have been the one that assassinated JFK.
 
That was still in the game, not as a mission though. There is a cutscene in which your character is shown to be present at the day JFK was killed where he is edited into real footage of JFK getting off of Air Force One. This, coupled with the dialogue exchange between your character and the main antagonist just before the antagonist dies…
 
You: You tried to turn me against my own! You failed! You tried to make me kill my own president!  
Big bad: Tried?
 
…leads many to believe that the player character was responsible or at least partly responsible for the murder of JFK in the Black Ops universe…

 
I am such a nerd.
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The song “Angel of Death” by thrash metal band Slayer is linguistically significant for containing the earliest known usage of the word “abacinate”.
 
Abacinate means to torture and blind a person by holding a red-hot metal plate before their eyes… Yeah, it’s a pretty fucked up song, don’t look too much into it if you’re easily offended.
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Ash from Pokemon’s Japanese name is Satoshi, named after the creator of the franchise. His rival Gary’s Japanese name is Shigeru, named after the creator of the Mario franchise.
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Crisps/Potato Chips were invented, when a customer at a restaurant kept complaining about how his French Fries were not thin and crispy enough. Annoyed by his constant complaints, the chief decided to cut the potatoes paper thin and deep fried them, as revenge for it.  
TO his surprise, the customer ended up enjoying the meal, and it became a hit.
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In the song “Number of the Beast” by heavy metal band Iron Maiden, around a minute and 15 seconds into the song the lead vocalist (Bruce Dickinson) lets out a powerful scream as can be heard here. It was the result of Bruce getting annoyed at producer Martin Birch, who forced him to sing the introduction repeatedly for hours on end. It was so impressive that they had to use it in the song and he never matched it live.
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