3. TIL that one Canadian tank, nicknamed "Bomb," never missed a day of service from...

TIL that one Canadian tank, nicknamed "Bomb," never missed a day of service from when it landed in Normandy on D-Day until the surrender of Germany, firing over 6,000 rounds and taking two enemy hits across France, Belgium, and the Netherlands

VR would be an absolute game changer in understanding situations like that. I've got a ton of VR experience and am very used to being totally immersed but there was a game, not a great one and I actually refunded it, which offered me an experience I'll hopefully never get to have. Being charged by a knight on horseback as an infantryman with a spear was an utterly overwhelming experience that left me frozen in place in panic unable to think quick enough to even raise my spear. The sheer size, speed and force of that horse coming straight at me, never mind the pointy spear aimed at my head, was something unexplainable. I couldn't pick a direction to jump, the horse was too fast and too large. No movie has has ever come even the slightest bit close to depicting the situation. And this is from someone with a couple of VR under the belt extremely well aware it's just a game.

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