80% of all Soviet males born in the year 1923 died in World War II

The Aztecs sacrificed 250,000 people a year, about 1% of their population

George Washington famously declared before his death that he "would never set foot on English soil again". When a statue of him was erected in London, US soil was put under that statue to hone that request

Four out of every five German soldiers who died during World War II died on the Eastern Front

It is estimated that 60 million people, or 3% or the world's population, died during World War II

Only 1 in 9 Japanese kamikaze pilots hit their targets during World War II