They Didn't Teach You These 15 Facts About World War II At School...
Wait - What famous soda was created by the Nazis?
The S.S Officer bought a copy...
The Officer who caught Anne Frank and her family bought a copy of her diary to make sure he didn't appear in it. He doesn't.
Not quite over yet...
Russia and Japan have yet to sign a peace treaty. They are technically still at war over the Kurill Islands.
Fanta was invented by the Nazis...
During the war, Germany couldn't get hold of the syrup for Coke. So they created Fanta!
Still holding out...
The last Japanese soldier to surrender waited until 1974, 29 years after World War II ended.
Left a little something behind.
A British POW hid a radio at a prison camp so well,that when he visited the site years later it was exactly where he left it.
What a coincidence!
Leonard Dawes wrote crosswords for the Telegraph; he used D-Day codes a month before D-Day. He was investigated, but it was just a fluke...
True Heroes!
Two Polish doctors saved 8,000 Jews by injecting them with a vaccine containing dead typhus. The Germans weren't sent to the camps if they had typhus.
Canada Went First!
Canada declared war on Japan and Germany right after Pearl Harbor; before America did.
On every side...
Juan Pujol Garcia was such an effective double agent that he received both the German Iron Cross, and the British MBE.
That's a lot of bamboo...
The Taj Mahal was covered with scaffold and then bamboo to prevent it from being bombed.
Some serious good luck!
British airman Nicholas Alkemade fell 18,000 feet from his plane and survived with only a sprained leg.
A whole generation..
Eighty percent of Soviet Men born in 1923 died in World War II.
Remnants of War-
Approximately 5,500 bombs are found and disposed of in Germany every year.
Footing the bill...
World War II cost every person living in the U.S.A $20,388.
Willing, but not able.
During the war, Canada issued badges for those who tried to enlist but were turned away for medical issues.
