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TIL Some of the important decisions in WW2 could not be made because Hitler was sleeping (and he liked to sleep uptill noon). On D-Day invasion, the german officers couldn't get further command from Hitler, because of strict orders not to wake him up for any reason.

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oRN0W TIL about anti ninja floors in Japan. They were purposefully made to squeak as to alert people of intruders.
n557 TIL The creators of the Red Dwarf series acknowledge that Rimmer’s surname comes from a snobby prefect with whom they attended school. They claim, however, that only the boy’s name was used, and not his personality because that would imply he had one.
wL4B7 TIL Uravan, CO was a mining town that provided uranium to the Manhattan Project. The town was shut down in 1968. Over the next 20 years, Uravan and its contents were completely demolished to decontaminate the area because of radiation.
KYDeG TIL that the busiest passenger air route in the English-speaking world is the Sydney-Melbourne run
ADVNo TIL July 28, 1915 the US invaded and occupied Haiti. They moved the financial reserves to the United States and then rewrote Haiti’s Constitution to give foreigners land-owning rights.