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• [Weapons fact 1]  The city of Kennesaw, Georgia has a law that all families must own a gun.

  People, Places, Weapons source

• [Weapons fact 2]  In 1954, shortly after the 15 megaton Castle Bravo nuclear explosion, Edward Teller, the "father of the H-bomb," proposed a new weapon known as the SUNDIAL. Its explosive yield was proposed to be 10,000 megatons or 10 gigatons. To put it into perspective, the largest bomb ever detonated, the Tsar Bomba, could at its maximum yield have been 100 megatons. The SUNDIAL would have been 100x more powerful than the Tsar Bomba and could scorch an area the size of France or Texas. The project was axed by the Air Force.

  Government, Weapons source

• [Weapons fact 3]  On February 25, 1991, 28 US soldiers died when a previously reported software glitch in the Patriot Missile system's clock prevented it from shooting down an Iraqi SCUD missile. A software patch to fix it was released on the following day.

  Death, Technology, Weapons source

• [Weapons fact 4]  Japanese scientists had planned to conduct a test of a nuclear weapon near Hungnam on 12 August 1945, which would have been 6 days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

  People, Places, Weapons source

• [Weapons fact 5]  The first act of the United Kingdom's State Opening of Parliament is to check the cellars to ensure that it doesn’t have any bombs in it. This is a tradition that has been carried out without fail after the original failed gunpowder plot of 1605.

  Government, Weapons source

• [Weapons fact 6]  In 2014, a South Carolina high school student named Alex Stone was arrested and suspended and had his locker searched because of a creative writing assignment where he mentioned buying a gun to shoot his neighbor's pet dinosaur.

  Education, People, Weapons source

• [Weapons fact 7]  A fur trapper named Ben Cochrum was attacked by wolves in 1922. After shooting seven wolves and beating four to death with his gun, the stock broke and he succumbed to being "torn to shreds". His body was found surrounded by the remains of the 11 wolves he had killed fighting for his life.

  Animals, Death, Humanbody, People, Weapons source

• [Weapons fact 8]  Smarties candy was originally made with machines that were built to make gunpowder pellets for ammunition during World War I.

  Food, Weapons source

• [Weapons fact 9]  Russians have built an anti-ship cruise missile that is meant to be fired in groups of about 8. On the way to the target, they all fly very low to hide from radar, except one. One will fly higher up, acting as a spotter and guide and use its radar to look for ships and will guide the others. If it is destroyed (because it flying higher and easier to detect) another missile in the group will rise up and take over the role of guide. And if it is destroyed another and so on. The guiding missile will also make an assessment of the targets if it finds multiple ships, prioritizes and then designate the targets for the other missiles. If a ship is destroyed it will reassign targets. They were designed to take out carrier task forces. They’ve been operational since 1985. Basically, the Russians have had suicidal, swarming, co-operating drones for thirty years.

  Countries, Weapons source

• [Weapons fact 10]  The Man Catcher was one of the few examples of non-lethal medieval weapons. It was used primarily to pull a person from horseback and drag them to the ground, but it was also used to capture opponents for ransom and to trap and contain violent prisoners.

  History, Weapons source

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