Hand grenades got their name from the pomegranate. The French word for pomegranate is grenade, and the weapons are not only shaped like the fruit, but ones designed during World War I had seed-like shrapnel inside.
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Hand grenades got their name from the pomegranate. The French word for pomegranate is grenade, and the weapons are not only shaped like the fruit, but ones designed during World War I had seed-like shrapnel inside.
(via Fact and a Photo)
