Apprently, if you go to Openlibrary.com and click on advanced search, then go to the bottom and look

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Apprently, if you go to Openlibrary.com and click on advanced search, then go to the bottom and look for full text search, you can look for that line you remember in a book who’s name and author you’ve forgotten and really want to find again.

Also Openlibrary is awesome and has a ton of books available for free.

tyrannosaurus-rex: str3lka: str3lka: one of my favorite weird history moments has got to be when...

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str3lka:

one of my favorite weird history moments has got to be when american agents tasked with nixon’s security while he was in the soviet union as vice president under eisenhower detected unusual amounts of radiation in his hotel room so they discussed it loudly to each other to make sure the soviets knew that they knew since there were obviously bugs everywhere and the next day it just mysteriously went away and they never learned any more about it

life during the cold war was just whatever

The Soviets: What if we irradiated Nixon to try and give him radiation poisoning

Secret Service Agents the room over: WOW NIXONS ROOM SURE IS RADIOACTIVE! I SURE HOPE WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHERE ALL THIS RADIATION IS COMING FROM. THE RADIATION IN NIXON’S ROOM THAT IS. THE ONE WE’RE MONITORING SO CLOSELY WE EVEN BOTHERED TO TEST FOR RADIATION LEVELS.

The Soviets: fuck shit abort theyre onto us abort

It reminds me of a story during WW2 about why the Germans never bothered to use poisoned gas during the Blitz.

Germans: So ve haff ze shipment of poisoned gas-

English: Everyone has gas masks, we has so many gas masks we are tailoring them for horses and dogs, and special gas masks to fit over prams. We have drills for how to put on masks in 3 seconds, and have painted everything with special paint that changes colour in a gas attack-

Germans: *das sigh* …or ve could just bomb them.