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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.

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Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.

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The US federal income tax was first enacted in 1862 to support the Union’s Civil War effort. It was eliminated in 1872, revived in 1894 then declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court the following year. In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution made the income tax a permanent fixture in the US tax system.

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A war dog named Sergeant Stubby was promoted to sergeant through combat in WW1.

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

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