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While the CIA was busy trying to explode Fidel Castro’s cigars, the US State Department decided their best weapon against communism was a trumpet. In the…
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Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union, famously starred in a completely bizarre television commercial for Pizza Hut in 1997, just a few…
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Sometimes psychological warfare involves dropping absolute garbage from the sky and hoping for the best. During the height of the Cold War, the CIA-funded…
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United States intelligence officials seriously considered dropping enormous, extra-large condoms labeled medium onto the Soviet Union as a bizarre…
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It turns out the worst king of France was actually just a deeply misunderstood hardware enthusiast. He spent hours isolated in his workshop happily…
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The ultimate proof that sleeping on the job is productive. Dmitri Mendeleev struggled for months to organize the known elements. Exhausted, he fell asleep at…
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