› added 3 months ago

16

TIL about Operation Downfall, a plan by the USA to invade mainland Japan during WW2 which was planned to start in November 1945

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

bp17 TIL: Ohio shames drivers convicted of a DUI with special yellow license plates
x6Dg TIL Since 1945, all British tanks have come equipped with tea making facilities
54BR TIL Germans have a tool which breaks eggs perfectly called a Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher.
l7p1B TIL Shortly after the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Two Southern Senators (Yarborough D-TX and Thurmond D-SC) wrestled each other outside the hearing room of the Commerce Committee of the U.S. Congress.
x5V5 TIL that the chinese title for “The 6th Sense” was “He’s a Ghost”