Six Surprising World War I Facts

here are 6 facts you probably didn't know about world war 1 1.

did you know tanks had genders and names, Early tanks were categorized as "male"

(cannons) or "female" (machine guns), and prototypes were called "Landships" before being secretly

coded as "Tanks". 2. in ww1 is where they developed plastic surgery,

Dr. Harold Gillies developed modern plastic surgery techniques to reconstruct faces ravaged by

shrapnel. 3. you could hear explosions in London. Miners dug tunnels

under enemy lines to plant massive bombs; the resulting explosions from the Battle of Messines

could be heard in London. 4. in war they built fake pairs.