So, I've decided to "slowly" impart some of my random knowledge onto all of you in the RIA. If your not a member of the RIA, please disreguard this topic. Also, I will OCCASIONALLY update this when I remember something from the VAST RESERVOIR that is MY MIND.
So, lets start with 2 "interesting" facts:
1. Did you know, Bananas are radioactive? A Banana Equivalent Dose, is a nonstandard measurement of radiation. Specifically, the amount of radiation that someone receives in the process of eating 1 banana. The reason for this radioactivity, is the Potassium in the Banana, which is a naturally (slightly) radioactive element.
The amount of radiation is so low, that you are much more likely to die of Potassium Poisoning, than suffer any effects of radiation sickness from eating bananas. However, Bananas trucks fairly regularly set off Radiation Detectors at border checkpoints.
2. One of the main reasons the revolution was successful, was tactics taught to the Colonial military by a Gay Prussian Military man, posing as a Baron to borrow money from the french (after fleeing from Germany because they wanted to prosecute him), who then pawned him off on Benjamin Franklin (instead of loaning him money), claiming he was a Prussian General.
His name, was Baron von Steuben, A.K.A. NOT BARON Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben. His father fabricated the Baron title and claim. He's credited with pretty much single handedly training the revolutionary armies to "Not die" and fight the british. This was after Washington ran off with 12,000 men in a not-so-glorious retreat from the British who were spanking the rest of revolutionaries.
After the winter, when most of them either died from freezing, disease, starvation, or general buffoonery, Von Steuben arrived, and turned the remaining 4,000 into super revolutionary badasses by teaching them how to fight and do something other than "Fire one shot and run". His biggest contribution? The Bayonet. Prior to his instruction, the primary use of the Bayonet was a cooking Skewer. After his instruction, the Americans promptly attacked WITH UNLOADED WEAPONS and won a decisive battle (losing only 15 Americans, killing 20 British, and taking over 700 prisoners due to their sheer badassness).
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