They Didn't Teach You These 15 Facts About World War II At School...

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.

Russia and Japan have yet to sign a peace treaty. They are technically still at war over the Kurill Islands.

During the war, Germany couldn't get hold of the syrup for Coke. So they created Fanta!

The last Japanese soldier to surrender waited until 1974, 29 years after World War II ended.

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.

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...

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 declared war on Japan and Germany right after Pearl Harbor; before America did.

Juan Pujol Garcia was such an effective double agent that he received both the German Iron Cross, and the British MBE.

The Taj Mahal was covered with scaffold and then bamboo to prevent it from being bombed.

British airman Nicholas Alkemade fell 18,000 feet from his plane and survived with only a sprained leg.

Eighty percent of Soviet Men born in 1923 died in World War II.

Approximately 5,500 bombs are found and disposed of in Germany every year.

World War II cost every person living in the U.S.A $20,388.

During the war, Canada issued badges for those who tried to enlist but were turned away for medical issues.