Some Unbelievable Facts about the Cold War
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The CIA used pigeons equipped with tiny cameras to take aerial photographs of Soviet sites. These "Spy Pigeons" were trained to fly over specific targets.
Dec 9, 2024 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
So I went down the rabbit hole with the whole Jay Z and Diddy thing going on.
Never thought ever that this man could be a predator. But what do I know.
Crazy things that I found out ---- A thread
In the Interview with Charlie Ross (2007), Jay Z admitted that he met Beyoncé when she was just 16 in 1997 and started dating around 1999
Dec 6, 2024 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
The most disturbing photos of people just before they were executed
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1. Ruth Snyder, the first person who was pictured being electrocuted on the chair 2. A woman tries to shield her child with her body moments before their execution by a Nazi Einsatzgruppen death squad near Ivangorod, Ukraine, in 1942.
Dec 4, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
A thread of certain disturbing facts
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1. This four-year-old boy was saved by a priest from drowning in the icy waters of the River Inn in Germany in 1894
Do you know who was that??
The name of that boy is given in the Alt 2. There are more people in slavery today than at any other time in history.
Dec 3, 2024 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
Facts that will mess with your perception of the historical timeline
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1. George Washington never knew dinosaurs existed as he died in 1799 and the first dinosaur fossil was discovered in 1824 2. Sharks are older than trees.
Sharks are survivors, persisting through all five global mass extinctions in various forms over 450 million years.
Not even trees have lived this long as they first appeared on Earth around
380 million years ago.
Apr 22, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
NASA has shared some exciting news about a rare astronomical event involving the star system T
Coronae Borealis, located in the constellation Coronal Borealis.
This system is expected to produce a nova explosion that will be visible to the naked eye from Earth.
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Read below for some key points
Nova Explosion
A nova is a cosmic event where a new star appears to suddenly brighten in the sky. In this case, the nova will occur in the T Coronae Borealis system, which is about (3,000 light-years away) from Earth.