Over 1 million soldiers died during that Battle of Stalingrad in World War II. That is roughly the same number of United States combat deaths in all of its wars put together
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The Egyptians believed that the heart, not the brain, was the source of human wisdom, memory, emotions, the soul and the personality itself. In fact, the brain was discarded during the mummification process
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost during an aircraft collision during exercise near Savannah, GA. It's whereabouts remain unknown to this day
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During World War I, Germany offered Mexico the return of its lost territories of Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico if it attacked the United States
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The Aztecs sacrificed 250,000 people a year, about 1% of their population
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George Washington famously declared before his death that he "would never set foot on English soil again". When a statue of him was erected in London, US soil was put under that statue to hone that request
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"Black Death" is recent term. During the time of the plague, it was called "the Pestilence" "the Great Mortality"
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During World War I, about one third of military deaths were caused by the Spanish Flu
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Interesting choice
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Loophole
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Only 1 in 9 Japanese kamikaze pilots hit their targets during World War II
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An estimated one third of all Jewish people alive in the world were killed during the Holocaust
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Unlikely accident
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It is estimated that 60 million people, or 3% or the world's population, died during World War II
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During the Great Depression, money circulation had fallen so low that the U.S. didn't mint nickels