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I want someone to develop a game where you play as Hitler’s escaped clone in the year 1954 after the Nazis make a truce with the western Allies and are having a protracted nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Your goal is to utterly destroy the fascist empire from whence you came.

by CopyPastaArchive January 17, 2022, 9:29 am

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TIL the West Virginia town of Vulcan couldn’t get any funds to repair a failing bridge during the Cold War so they wrote to the USSR and requested aid. Once someone from the Soviet Union came out to survey, the State government then passed legislation to have funds to repair the bridge.

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 6:47 pm

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A man living in the Soviet union is queuing up for bread…

by cringeyjokesman January 16, 2022, 4:55 pm

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TIL: Archaeologist Alexander Peev was executed by firing squad in 1943 on suspicion of sending a coded message to the Soviet Union. It was actually an ancient inscription he wanted Russian archaeologists to help him interpret. The text remains undeciphered.

by whatilearned January 14, 2022, 6:55 pm

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TIL that a trilogy of Winnie the Pooh cartoons were made in the Soviet Union from 1969 to 1972, they used their own unique design for the characters

by whatilearned January 12, 2022, 9:00 am

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TIL Russian hipsters in the 1950’s, called the stilyagi, used discarded X-Rays to copy and distribute Western records that managed to make it into the Soviet Union. It was called bone music.

by whatilearned January 12, 2022, 12:51 am

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TIL that German-born soldiers made up about 10% of Union forces during the Civil War. Some of them were exiled supporters of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe. After the war, the Forty-Eighters supported improved labor laws, and also advanced development in education, medicine, and journalism.

by whatilearned December 13, 2021, 5:15 pm

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TIL that before ‘free mobile phone roaming’ was introduced across the European Union, residents and tourists around Dover, on the southeast coast of England, were regularly get charged international roaming fees for using French network due to poor network coverage on the English side of the channel

by whatilearned December 11, 2021, 1:24 pm

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TIL Western Union stopped its telegram operations on January 27, 2006, reporting that only 20,000 telegrams were sent in 2005 at about $10 per message.

by whatilearned December 10, 2021, 11:29 pm

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TIL Prior to the American civil war, King Rama IV of Siam offered to send war elephants to the Union for their own military and logistical use. Lincoln declined, stating that the American climate would not support the domestication of elephants and that the steam engine would suffice

by whatilearned December 5, 2021, 8:35 pm

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TIL Tobasco sauce was born from the remnants of a Confederacy salt works shortly after the American Civil War. Avery Island was the site of one of many salt works hastily put together after the Union blockade, and was a military target.

by whatilearned December 3, 2021, 8:48 am

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Union Find Algorithm to find redundant connections in graph

by ProgrammerDude December 3, 2021, 3:16 am

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