History of Everything: The Fall of Constantinople
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The Power of a Machine Gun
If the metal got too hot and you fired it, it could completely rupture. This is one of the reasons why machine guns are fired in bursts. Do you ever notice how castle walls stopped being straight up and down basically like in fortresses? Well, funnily enough, it actually resisted the cannon fire better.
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