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TIL someone bought Lee Harvey Oswald’s Life Insurance for $80K

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Oo7P4 TIL A way Switzerland kept itself from being invaded is by booby-trapping and blowing up all it's border linkages, and bridges making it merely impossible for the Nazis to invade during WW2.
WkmlL TIL that there's a clip from Futurama on YouTube, where Neutral President from Neutral Planet declares "I have no strong feelings, one way or the other". Fans of the show have kept the likes and dislikes for the video at an even number for more than a decade.
7mkL TIL in 2007 a German pensioner was given a prison term of five months for, amongst other things, training his dog ‘Adolf’ to raise his right paw in a Nazi salute every time the command “Heil Hitler!” was uttered
dA9j TIL that the character King Julian from Madagascar was only meant to have a couple of lines, until they cast Sacha Baron Cohen and rewrote the script because his recordings were so funny.
Wkkwd TIL Nude hiking is not allowed in Appenzell, Switzerland. If caught, nude hikers can be fined for practicing "immoral habits".