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** The MAS (short for ''motobarca armata SVAN'', SVAN being the original manufacturer), the torpedo boats of the Italian Navy, were essentially speedboats with a torpedo strapped on either side and discounted as nothing more than a nuisance. The Austro-Hungarian Navy literally failed to see two of them having a chance encounter with their flagship, sink it, and run away, and thought the ''Szent Istvan'' had been sunk by submarines until the Italian propaganda started boasting.
** [[Driven to Suicide]]: As a result of the above and the below-mentioned [[Crapsack World]].
** Modern plastic surgery owes its [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103053830/http://www.plasticsurgery.org/about-asps/history-of-plastic-surgery.html beginnings] to this. The results were [http://bitchitoldyouigottaste.tumblr.com/post/11508919065/some-photos-of-wwi-veterans-with-their-tin-masks primitive]{{broken link}} by today's standards, but they were far better than nothing. In particular, big advancements were made in prosthetic eyes.
* [[Book Ends]]: The treaty that ended the war and the German Empire was signed in Versailles, the same place where the German Empire was unified and proclaimed after the [[Franco-Prussian War]].
* [[Cassandra Truth]]: Charles I of the Austro-Hungarian Empire protested against [[Imperial Germany]]'s plan to allow certain dissidents hiding in Switzerland safe passage into Russia in the hopes of driving them out of the war, with the Germans ultimately dismissing the warning. Said dissidents also happened to include [[Vladimir Lenin]], their return having [[Commie Land|drastic consequences]].
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