Here is the List of War & Armaments, Swords & Knives, Guns & Bullets, Explosives & Explosions, and What is Bulletproof:
War & Armaments
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It is not difficult to hold a hand grenade for a long time after the pin has been removed.
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Lying flat on the ground will not protect a person from grenade shrapnel.
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A grenade can be neutralized by placing it in a bucket of water or by covering it with a body, but not by throwing it inside a refrigerator.
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It is not feasible to shoot a handgun at an oncoming RPG and escape unharmed, but it may be possible to shoot a hand grenade in midair and render it harmless.
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It may be possible to dodge a bullet from a sniper rife that is over 500 yards (457 m) away if you see the muzzle flash, but a sniper could make sure you don’t see the flash.
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Building battlefield trenches with sharp corners helps reduce the spread of a shock wave.
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Operation Valkyrie would not have been successful if Hitler’s meeting remained underground.
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The wooden shrapnel from a cannonball impact does not cause more damage than the cannonball itself.
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Archers on a galloping horse will have more powerful arrow shots, but not double the power of when standing still.
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A form of torture in which bamboo slowly grows through a person’s body is feasible.
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Chinese water torture could drive someone insane.
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A sniper could have shot straight through another sniper’s scope during the Vietnam War.
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A wooden arrow cannot be fully split in half by a direct hit in the tail from another arrow.
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A normal fire extinguisher can’t hold off an attack from a flamethrower.
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Swords & Knives
- At close quarters, a fighter with a knife can defeat one with a gun.
- Slicing through real fruit with a sword is not as easy as it seems in the game Fruit Ninja.
- Having higher ground in a sword fight is not a significant advantage.
- Attacking first in a sword fight is not a disadvantage.
- A hardcover book is effective at stopping a sword thrust, while coins will just deflect the thrust.
- Cutting a machine gun in two with a sword is not possible.
Guns & Bullets
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A bullet fired straight up can still be lethal when it falls to the ground.
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It is possible to shoot a bullet through a wall and hit a moving target.
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A rifle with a bent barrel can still fire lethally.
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A rifle with a boresight left in the barrel could backfire and explode.
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Guns work underwater and would also work in the vacuum of space.
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A gun that is dropped in a deep fryer will discharge.
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A pistol dropped down a flight of stairs is not likely to discharge.
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A nail gun is not an effective weapon.
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Equally-matched opponents in a fast draw gunfight would likely kill each other.
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Silver bullets don’t work well, but lead bullets can be engraved and still fire accurately.
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A bullet can’t be fired at a road surface to ricochet up through a car’s floorboard.
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The standard two-handed stance is the best way to hold a gun.
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It is more accurate to fire two guns simultaneously than to alternate left- and right-hand shots in a two-handed stance.
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A handgun can be used to shoot a dropped handgun out of reach of an adversary.
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A bullet may be able to ricochet three times and return to the shooter, but it will not have lethal velocity.
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It is not possible to shoot a gun out of a person’s hand without injuring them.
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Guns can be shot around corners with special devices.
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A person can shoot a target while airborne after jumping.
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The sonic boom from a supersonic bullet will not break glass.
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A loud car stereo system will not cause a rifle to misfire, but the shock wave from a bomb can.
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Davy Crocket could have shot a musket and split the bullet on a distant axe blade.
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Cigarette butts fired from a gun can be lethal.
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You cannot shoot a hat off a person’s head; the bullet will not transfer enough energy.
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A bullet can be shot into the empty chamber of another revolver, and two bullets can collide in midair and fuse together.
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An Old West gunslinger could not have shot a hole through a silver dollar, fired five times before a coin was dropped to the ground, or saved a man from hanging by shooting the rope.
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Bullets can generate sparks when they ricochet, but it’s not common.
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A bullet could serve as a replacement electronic fuse and eventually heat up enough to discharge.
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Loose bullets in a hot oven or a fire will explode, but they will not have lethal velocity. However, a loaded gun in a hot ovencan fire a lethal bullet.
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What is Bulletproof
- Things that can stop bullets: a fish tank, a block of pykrete, inch-thick polycarbonate, and possibly a police badge, a belt buckle, certain bathroom tiles, and several pizzas in a warming bag.
- Things that are not bulletproof: a tape measure, a golf ball, a wallet, a hair weave, a refrigerator door, a car door, a car covered with phone books, an iPod, human fat, human muscle, a mixture of cornstarch and water, an over door, a deck of playing cards, a book, and ¼-inch polycarbonate.
- Three watermelons can stop a .50 caliber bullet.
- A metal cigarette lighter can stop a bullet only if the bullet has already ricocheted off another surface.
- A laptop may be able to block a shotgun blast.
- A person can hide underwater as protection from bullets.
Explosives & Explosions
- Standing between two identical explosions is not safe; rather, the shock waves accumulate.
- A vehicle containing flammable gas can explode when it receives a keyless remote signal.
- C-4 plastic explosive is stable enough to burn without exploding, even when subjected to falling anvils, gun shots, and thermite.
- C-4 will detonate in a microwave only if it is wired with a blasting cap.
- Binary explosives (Tannerite) in the trunk of a car will not detonate if the car is rear-ended.
- When exposed to fire, a small propane tank can explode and fly high into the air.
- Igniting thermite on top of ice will cause an explosion.
- A large fireball can be created by a cloud of saw dust or powdered creamer.
- If a trail of gas from a leaking car is lit on fire, the fire will not catch up to the car and blow it up.
- Diving underwater could make an above-water explosion more survivable.
- A person can float on his/her back at the surface to improve the survivability of an underwater explosion.
- A person can outrun a trail of burning gunpowder and kick it out before it reaches the source.
- Aerosol cans and beer kegs will explode in an open fire, and a keg exploding could cause lethal injury.
- A stick of dynamite might be able to help clean out a cement truck, but it will not remove a solid slab of concrete.
- A person who lights gasoline in a culvert will be burned, but not blasted out a great distance.
- A methane explosion can launch a manhole cover into the air.
- A Christmas tree doused with liquid nitrogen will not explode.
- It not possible to flatten a car using explosives without obliterating it.
- An aquarium, a garbage truck, and a bed can effectively contain an explosion, but a filing cabinet and a steel safe cannot.
- A wooden table, a car, a metal dumpster, and a cinder block wall can all protect someone from the shock wave of a bomb.
- Dry ice bombs are very dangerous.
Should some of these (that fits in both the World War I & World War II eras) be included in the game?
- Yes
- No