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TIL during the WW2 there were a secret hospital for 120 partisans in Slovenia, hidden in the forest behind a torrent, that remained secret for over 2 years that, despite fervent attempts by enemy forces-Nazi, it was never discovered. Now it’s a museum candidate to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site
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TIL of the K-ships — a class of armed blimps used by the US Navy during WW2 for anti-submarine warfare operations against German U-boats. Only one K-ship was lost due to enemy action when the K-74 was shot down by machine gun fire from the submarine U-134 on the night of the 18th of July 1943
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TIL Emperor Hirohito apologised for Japan’s warcrimes in WW2, which Douglas MacArthur allegedly rejected by refusing to acknowledge Hirohito’s presence. Patrick Lennox Tierney, the source for the story, would call it “the rudest, crudest, most uncalled for thing I have ever witnessed in my life”
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