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TIL Martin Luther was virulently antisemitic and his writings were used by the Nazis to justify their hatred of Jews

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9Yvxr TIL that in 1943, Canada declared the maternity ward of Ottawa Civic Hospital extraterritorial. This was done so that the newborn Princess Margriet of the Netherlands would derive her Dutch citizenship from her mother. The royal family had fled to Canada three years prior due to the Nazi occupation.
jN70n TIL that 1991 song 'Losing My Religion' by REM isn't about a guy being separated from Higher being but simply about unrequited love.
d8JnB TIL in 1968, four submarines sunk belonging to Russia, the USA, France and Israel, with no clear and obvious cause for the sinkings.
pW8 TIL that one of the Green Lanterns is a planet… a sentient planet.
DalY TIL that the japanese didn’t just have suicide pilots but they had suicide submarine captains that would guide torpedoes into allied ships.