These People Followed Instructions A Bit Too Literally

The More You Know

• The 442nd Infantry Regiment, a largely Japanese American unit that served during WWII, did so while their families were held in internment camps. Their motto was "Go for Broke" and they were the most decorated unit in U.S. military history.
• A chameleon's tongue is twice as long as its body.
• "E" is the most common letter and appears in 11 percent of all english words.
• A Nepalese doctor has restored the sight of over 100,000 often poverty-stricken people in the last thirty years across Asia and Africa using a 5 minute procedure and an inexpensive artificial lens.