In 1944, the US military conducted Exercise Tiger as a trial for the Normandy invasion, but it was discovered by German attack craft, resulting in the deaths of nearly 800 Americans. The delay of D-Day by one day and the involvement of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and JD Salinger are also noted. War is hell, but […]
A contingency PR plan was in place in case the Apollo 11 mission failed, with President Nixon’s speech ready to be delivered if the astronauts were stranded on the moon. The speech was crafted by William Safire and is now archived in the National Archives. In July 1969, the world watched and nervously waited for […]
YouTube was originally intended to be a dating site, but co-founders quickly realized it needed to be more. It now has 5 billion daily video views and was sold to Google for $1.65 billion. Fun facts include the first video being of a zoo visit and a slide at their headquarters. Every day, people from […]
