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During World War II, the Polish army had a Bear soldier named Wojtek. Adopted in Iran, he helped carry artillery crates at the 1944 Battle of Monte Cassino, was promoted to corporal, and became his unit’s emblem as a bear holding a shell.
The term 'spam mail' comes from Monty Python's comedy sketch 'Spam.' During World War II, the US supplied massive amounts of SPAM cans to Britain, and the Brits' frustration inspired the sketch. The name later stuck to annoying promotional emails.
Yamaguchi Tsutomu survived both Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the first blast, he returned to Nagasaki and went to work. His boss scolded him — "a single bomb can't destroy a city" — and at that exact moment, the second atomic bomb detonated.
During World War II, the US Navy found the ocean floor seemingly rising every night on sonar. The culprit was millions of lanternfish forming a 'deep scattering layer'—hiding in the deep ocean by day and rising near the surface at night, their swim bladders reflecting the sonar signals.
During World War II, Britain developed the "Panjandrum"—a weapon with 1.8 tons of explosives between two 3-meter wheels, propelled by rocket mounted around the rims. It went out of control in every test, threatening friendly forces, and was never deployed in combat.
During World War II, the Japanese Empire devised the "Fugu Plan" to resettle Jewish immigrants in Manchuria, hoping their capital would develop the region. In reality, most who arrived were impoverished refugees, and the plan failed.