› added 7 years ago

177

TIL The Queen has the authority to declare war as well as to refuse to make peace with any country in the world.

Read more uk.businessinsider.com

via ift.tt

XL0R TIL that in World War II, German soldiers in American POW camps were sometimes allowed to leave without guards on the honor system, visiting nearby towns. Black American guards noted that German prisoners could visit segregated restaurants that they could not.
4XEkX TIL J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye, served in WW2 and landed on D-Day while carrying the first six chapters of the book with him. At the end of the war he checked himself into a mental institution. When he got out, he signed back up and participated in the denazification of Germany.
QJPdE TIL a partridge is a ground-nesting bird with zero interest in pear trees.
d8xOj TIL there was a man who made a $5 bet in 1964 that man would reach the moon before 1970. He won $24,000.
ynGa TIL that the U.S. Army had a tactical deception unit nicknamed “The Ghost Army”, which used inflatable tanks, loudspeakers and radio to fool German soldiers.