Question | Answer |
An explosion on the Battlefield in France was heard in London! | FACT!
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Did you know that war work turned some women's skin yellow?! | FACT!
| WW1 sparked the invention of plastic surgery! | FACT!
| The youngest British soldier to fight in the war was only 12 years old! | FACT!
| WW1 nearly caused a financial breakdown in Britain. | FACT!
| Colourful makeovers meant that WW1 ships hid in plain sight! | FACT!
| Only 9/10 soldiers survived the trenches. | FACT!
| Did you know that a fake Paris was built to fool German pilots in WW1?! | FACT!
| A wounded pigeon saved over 198 lives of army men in the USA in WW1. | FACT!
| The shortage of steel forced people to make concrete ships! | FACT!
| British soldiers first went to war with only a cloth cap for protection! | FACT!
| Effective gas masks didn't exist at the start of the war! | FACT!
| During WW1, the Spanish flu caused about 1/3 of total military deaths! | FACT!
| Dogs were used to lay down telegraph wires! | FACT!
| A soldier couldn't fall asleep in the war at all! | FACT!
| The King of Belgium fought in the war! | FACT!
| Generals were banned for 'going over the top'. | FACT!
| Hitler used to have a full-sized moustache, but he cut it so he could wear a gas mask properly! | FACT!
| About as many horses were killed (on the Western Front) as people. | FACT!
| The average life expectancy in the trenches was about 6 weeks! | FACT! |