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TIL The US Military Owns and Operates A Resort at Walt Disney World

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x6nK5 TIL that the Nuremberg Charter's definition of "crimes against humanity", which was used in the Nuremberg Trials, includes only acts committed during a war of aggression. This was partly because the US was concerned that Jim Crow segregation would otherwise be considered a crime against humanity
xMEo TIL that there are two species of flowering plants growing in Antarctica, even though 98% of the continent is covered by ice that averages 1.9 kilometres (1.2 miles) in thickness.
XEj46 TIL that the founder of Nidec Corporation, Shigenobu Nagamori, has his own manga named "Man Hotter than the Sun"
J1vv1 TIL Anne Rice was named after her father
1aWlP TIL Admiral Karl Dönitz would contact U-boats under his command up to 70 times a day to ask them about their position, fuel levels, and other minutiae. This frequent contact between Dönitz & his U-boats helped the Allies to break German ciphers