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A submarine surfacing can happen pretty fast. And pretty violently. Even at its calmest and slowest pace, that's still almost 9,000 tons of titanium-hulled, nuclear-powered Russian sub coming at you at 8 miles per-hour.

Gettysburg was the deadliest battle in American history.

One of the Marine Corps' greatest heroes had to earn his "butter bars" (as the rank of second lieutenant is called because the devices are yellow/gold in color) not once or twice, but three times before it stuck.

When you're asked what's the most important tool for any U.S. service member who's facing down a bad guy in battle, the most obvious response is his or her weapon.

Letters are a very personal and specific method of communicating, filled with all the details about feelings and moments that would get left out of official reports and summaries. That's why they're so loved by historians.

Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel pulled himself out of poverty by joining a gang headed by immigrant Meyer Lansky. During the Prohibition Era, Lansky and Siegel ran a large bootlegging operation and were influential in Jewish and Italian immigrant crime sy…