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TIL Rip was a stray dog adopted by an Air Raid Patrol in WW2. Although not trained for rescue work, he sniffed out over 100 victims trapped beneath buildings. He was awarded the Dickin medal for his work, which has been held partially responsible for prompting the training of search and rescue dogs.

by whatilearned August 13, 2022, 2:04 pm

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TIL When the P51 mustang was rushed into service in WW2, inevitably there were teething problems, one of which was that while flying, the whole engine sometimes simply dropped out of the airframe

by whatilearned August 4, 2022, 2:15 pm

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TIL that Teflon was first used for the first nuclear bombs. The anti-stick frying pan coating was used to coat valves and pipes in the separation of Uranium, which would corrode other materials much quicker. Only after WW2 was it used for cookware.

by whatilearned August 3, 2022, 12:38 pm

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TIL Betty White was a WW2 veteran. What a legend.

by whatilearned July 30, 2022, 2:18 am

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TIL that ww2 veteran, Matt Urban, a Medal of Honor and 7x Purple Heart recipient. Died from complications brought on by war wounds in 1995, 49 years after being medically discharged from the army

by whatilearned July 29, 2022, 10:26 pm

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TIL about a woman named Iva Toguri (Tokyo Rose) an American woman who used her position to undermine Japanese propaganda during WW2. She was named a traitor to the USA , and arrested for treason,it took her 30 years to prove her innocence.

by whatilearned July 29, 2022, 12:08 pm

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TIL – In 1948 the Mahindra car company struck a deal with Willy’s Overland Corp., makers of the original WW2 MB 1/4 ton utility trucks, to make a model for the Indian market. This would eventually lead to the feud with Jeep-Stellantis over similar looking vehicles.

by whatilearned July 29, 2022, 8:09 am

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The Minions Started WW2 and how they tried to hide it.

by CopyPastaArchive July 24, 2022, 7:58 pm

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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

by whatilearned July 24, 2022, 5:54 pm

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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

by whatilearned July 18, 2022, 12:51 pm

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TIL The Netherlands gives Canada 20,000 tulips every year as a thank you for protecting the Dutch royal family in ww2. In gratitude for helping liberate the Netherlands during World War II in 1945, Princess Juliana presented 100,000 tulip bulbs to Canada.

by whatilearned July 14, 2022, 11:48 am

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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”

by whatilearned July 10, 2022, 2:17 am

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