SKGUnknownTV@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTIL that the U.S. brought over more than 1,600 former Nazi scientists after WWII — including Wernher von Braun, who helped launch the Apollo programplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10
arrow-up15arrow-down1message-squareTIL that the U.S. brought over more than 1,600 former Nazi scientists after WWII — including Wernher von Braun, who helped launch the Apollo programplus-squareSKGUnknownTV@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squareSKGUnknownTV@lemmy.worldOPtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL the CIA secretly drugged hospital patients, prisoners, and soldiers with LSD as part of MKUltralinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months agoIf anyone’s curious, I made a short video about it too: (https://youtu.be/8Y0RTdh8RKo) — would love feedback! linkfedilink
SKGUnknownTV@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTIL the CIA secretly drugged hospital patients, prisoners, and soldiers with LSD as part of MKUltraplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10
arrow-up17arrow-down1message-squareTIL the CIA secretly drugged hospital patients, prisoners, and soldiers with LSD as part of MKUltraplus-squareSKGUnknownTV@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square9fedilink
SKGUnknownTV@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoHow did the CIA pull off one of the most daring space espionage operations of the Cold War in 1959?plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down11
arrow-up1-1arrow-down1message-squareHow did the CIA pull off one of the most daring space espionage operations of the Cold War in 1959?plus-squareSKGUnknownTV@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
minus-squareSKGUnknownTV@lemmy.worldOPtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that in 1959, the CIA secretly stole and reverse-engineered a Soviet moon probe during a public exhibition in Mexico City.linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoTotally — classic CIA move: paranoid, bold, and just reckless enough to work. linkfedilink
SKGUnknownTV@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTIL that in 1959, the CIA secretly stole and reverse-engineered a Soviet moon probe during a public exhibition in Mexico City.plus-squareyoutu.beexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down10
arrow-up110arrow-down1external-linkTIL that in 1959, the CIA secretly stole and reverse-engineered a Soviet moon probe during a public exhibition in Mexico City.plus-squareyoutu.beSKGUnknownTV@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square7fedilink
SKGUnknownTV@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTIL in 1971, a Soviet ship encountered a strange brown cloud near Vozrozhdeniya Island, triggering a deadly smallpox outbreak the USSR tried to cover upplus-squareyoutu.beexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down11
arrow-up15arrow-down1external-linkTIL in 1971, a Soviet ship encountered a strange brown cloud near Vozrozhdeniya Island, triggering a deadly smallpox outbreak the USSR tried to cover upplus-squareyoutu.beSKGUnknownTV@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
If anyone’s curious, I made a short video about it too: (https://youtu.be/8Y0RTdh8RKo) — would love feedback!