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A WWI Grenade Was Once Found At A Potato Chip Factory In Hong Kong

WWI grenade + Calbee potato mascot

We’ve all heard stories about people finding human thumbs in their soda or rat tails in their fried chicken. However, we bet you’ve never heard…

Royal Marine Threw Himself on a Grenade, Walked Away with a Bloody Nose and the George Cross

He shouldn’t have lived.  And in fact, if you were to ask him, he would tell you that at the time he thought for sure…

Medal of Honor Recipient Kyle Carpenter and the Men Who Jumped On Live Grenades Before Him

Despite what the movies might tell you, an exploding grenade doesn’t create a large fireball from which the receiving soldiers must jump into a body…

Man Pulls Pin from Buried Grenade by Mistake and Lives to Tell

Ian Harvey
Grenade

John Hill is a 67 year old grandfather who recently pulled the pin from a buried grenade,yet lived to tell the tale. He was out…