Ww2 Facts

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had an undescended testicle, a condition called cryptorchidism, according to medical records from his 1923 imprisonment.

Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.

Chrysler built engines for the B-29 bombers that attacked Japan during WWII, while Mitsubishi built the Zero fighters that tried to shoot them down. Decades later, both companies joined forces to build cars together in a plant called Diamond Star Motors.

After World War 2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over.

During World War II, the company that would become Uncle Ben's supplied rice to the U.S. Armed Forces under a government contract—their parboiled rice was prized because it could be air-dropped to troops without weevil infestation and cooked faster than regular rice.

The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."