Bock’s Car was the name of the B-29 Bomber that dropped the Atom Bomb on Nagasaki.

The shortest war on record, between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted just 38 minutes.

The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.

The Filipino flag is flown with the red stripe up in times of war and blue stripe up in times of peace.

During World War II, W.C. Fields kept US $50,000 in Germany ‘in case the little bastard wins’.

The shortest war on record was fought between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

During the US Civil war, 200,000 blacks served in the Union Army; 38,000 gave their lives; 22 won the Medal of Honor.

The total number of Americans killed in the Civil War is greater than the combined total of Americans killed in all other wars.

Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

In WWI, Hungarian soldier Paul Kern was shot in the frontal lobe, making him unable to fall asleep. He lived for years afterwards, and no one knows how.

More than 20,000 men were killed, wounded, or missing in action in the battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862. This was the bloodiest one-day fight during the Civil War.

The USSR set off the largest nuclear explosion in history, detonating a 50 megaton bomb (2600 times the Hiroshima bomb) in an atmospheric test over the Novaya Zemla Islands, October 30 1961.

On August sixth, 1945, during World War Two, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing an estimated 140,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.