Fighter Pilot
On April 15, 1943, Major Donald James Matthew Blakeslee from Ohio became the first pilot in history to shoot down an enemy plane with the P-47 Thunderbolt.
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The More You Know
- In the thirteenth century, Pope Gregory IX basically declared war on the cats of the world.
- Joseph Stalin would remove the people he did not like from the photos. This was pre-photoshop times.
- Bacon was used to make explosives during World War II.
- Napoleon’s most upsetting defeat came at Waterloo, when he was attacked by a horde of wild rabbits.