Mine is this little tidbit about Khaki’s from https://www.heddels.com/2019/05/history-khaki-anything-drab/
“Tried and tested by all the major powers, khaki-dyed, lightweight cotton twills became the de facto uniform for any colonizing power. If you were going to ship your boys abroad to pillage and conquer someplace in the Southern Hemisphere, khaki was your go-to color.”
Hiram Maxim (1840 - 1916) invented the modern mousetrap and the first automatic machine gun.
helluva mouse problem at the Maxim house
I mean… not anymore.
Looks like that one Love, Death & Robots episode.
– Hiram Maxim, probably
And the maxim gun is still in use today. Not new ones, mind you, the ones from his lifetime.
Trieds to build a better mouse trap.
Invents the machine gun
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I believe that he also invented the first silencers.