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1. To win the Pour le Mérite (the Blue Max), Germany’s highest award for valor during World War I a pilot had to shoot down this many enemy planes.

 
 
 
 

2. Winston Churchill’s father encouraged him to be a soldier, thinking him “too stupid” to be this.

 
 
 
 

3. This classic novel only sold 3,000 copies from 1851 to 1891.