Interesting Facts about World War 1
- World War 1 was the sixth deadliest conflict in world history.
- The World War 1 ended at 11 o’clock in the morning of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
- Germany made tires for bicycles out of metal springs after World War 1 because there was no more rubber available.
- During World War 1, France built a ‘Fake Paris’ near its capital city to confuse German pilots.
- Tanks were developed by the British during the First World War.
- During World War 1, Albert I, the King of Belgium, fought alongside his troops and his wife, Queen Elisabeth, worked as a nurse at the front.
- Before the war most women stayed at home or worked in domestic service
- The youngest soldier to serve during World War 1 was only 8 years old.
- During World War 1, a lone Portuguese soldier convinced the German soldiers that they were fighting against an entire unit for three days without eating or drinking.
- In World War 1, US Navy painted complex patterns of geometric shapes on ships as “dazzle camo.”
- There was a wounded pigeon in World War 1 that saved the lives of 198 American soldiers.
- When the war started, British soldiers went into battle with just a cloth cap for protection.
- The pharmaceutical company “Bayer” discovered Heroin and, until World War 1, sold it as a cough treatment.
- The first ever motorized ambulances were used during the First World War.
- Over 90,000 Chinese laborers were used by the British Army to dig trenches on the Western Front in World War 1.
- Aircraft were still very new in 1914, so when the Germans launched bombing raids on London, they were carried out from airships, known as zeppelins.
- After World War I, there were so few men in Germany that only 1 in 3 women would find a husband.
- About as many horses were killed on the Western Front in World War 1 as people (8 million).
- Due to food shortages, Britons were banned from throwing rice at weddings and feeding pigeons.
- The casualty during Taiping Rebellion almost equals that of World War 1.