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2 unusual facts about Flying Elephant


Flying Elephant

Many sources claim that the main armament, a nose-mounted cannon, was a standard 57-millimetre 6-pounder gun.

Albert Gerald Stern, the head of the Tank Supply Department, wrote that the War Office ordered the end of the project late in 1916, because it deemed mobility more important than protection.



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Grimpoteuthis

The octopuses of the genus Grimpoteuthis are also known as Dumbo octopuses from the ear-like fins protruding from the top of their head-like bodies, resembling the ears of Walt Disney's flying elephant Dumbo.