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TIL: A Times Square club was fined $20,000 for barring non-Korean patrons

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JB84 TIL that at the end of WWII, the Canadian Navy was the 3rd largest Navy in the world
b9oL9 TIL of Fannie Quigley—a five-foot-tall frontierswoman who spent nearly 40 years prospecting in a remote Alaskan region in the 1890s. She was defined as an all-in-one miner, hunter, brewer, and cook who used mine shafts as a beer fridge and shot bears to get lard for pie crusts.
bVy7 TIL In Norway there is a fortress called Akershus. It is believed that whoever controls Akershus also rules over Norway. However the fortress has survived every siege in the last 700 years.
e0R1E TIL that a 2002 episode of "The Twilight Zone" addressed the novikov self-consistency principle of time travel: a woman, played by Katherine Heigl, goes back in time to kill baby Hitler. She succeeds, but his mother adopts a child and raises him as Adolf. He grows up to lead the Nazi Party.
7rpv7 TIL of Anna Bates, a giantess from Canada. She was married to another giant, Martin van Buren, with whom she conceived worlds largest baby ever recorded weighing 10.7 Kg and measuring at 75cm tall.