History Facts

  In this large German airship (before it's eventual explosion), there were some rules and regulations made for the passengers onboard: -No smoking due to the very important fact that this was an airship probably powered by gas. But since this was in the 1920s and most people liked to smoke wherever they liked to, there was a private and pressurised smoking room/cabin where there would be one electric lighter allotted to one passenger for the moment. -No heavy things in bulk. You were instructed to carry only one napkin for your use, which was also why the piano onboard was made of aluminium foil.

  On one of the American stealth missions to the Baltic region (codenamed the "Baltic Express"; The SR-71 Blackbird lost an engine and entered Swedish airspace to be protected and escorted safely to Danish airspace by two Swedish Saab fighter jets- while two Soviet MIG-29s were trying to shoot it down and take it for the Soviet Union. Later, the brave two Swedish pilots were awarded a medal in 2018.

  The Maxim gun, produced by Hiram Maxim, became one of the only machine guns that continued to serve in conflicts after the First World War- even up to the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022. 

  When drug kingpin, Pablo Escobar was wanted by many law enforcement agencies from the U.S, (the DEA) he went on a family vacation to Disneyland, and also took a picture in front of the White House.  

  During the Battle of the Marianas in WW2, A Japanese warplane (piloted by Sakio Komatsu) divebombed into six torpedos from approaching his ship.

  Polish pilots, who volunteered to join the war effort, squished enemy pilots with their landing gears. This was usually done when there was no ammunition available for their warplane.

  Austrian general, Conrad Von Holtzendorff declared war on Serbia 25 times- and was behind the invasion of 1914 and 1915 in WW1. Holtzendorff's strategy of marching Austrian soldiers past the Carpathian mountains lost him around 800,000 men in the process, during this offensive in war.

  Whenever the Vikings needed to get some nutmeg, they couldn't really pop down to the nearest supermarket and get some.  So, they went on a voyage to the Middle East and bought some, along with some slaves too. (apparently)

  In June 1942, the Germans sent eight spies to America to "burn down New York" and collect valuable information for the war. But, the spies regularly fought each other and were not fond of one another.  This eventually led to two of them ratting the mission out to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and thus botching the mission.

  Corporal Wojtek was a Syrian bear sold to the Polish Army from the mountains of Iran. Wojtek was then recruited and hired by the Polish Army and served the Allied effort by moving ammunition boxes in battle. This clever bear met many Allied leaders, like Patton, especially during the war effort in Italy. Eventually, he retired and settled down in Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland as a veteran and popular figure for visiting children.

  . During the 1960s, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used a strange tactic to spy on potential targets- by using a cat. This was performed using listening devices attached to a stray cat, before letting it loose to discreetly record and spy on the target. Unfortunately, the curious cat ran away and was run over by a taxi. This was an unfortunate end to an otherwise peculiar form of intelligence-seeking