1Viktor Belenko
A Russian MIG Pilot named Viktor Belenko defected during the cold war along with his aircraft. When he arrived in the USA he was convinced the CIA had specially stocked the grocery stores he went to because he couldn't believe the vast array of products for sale.
2. During the Cold War, the USSR mapped the entire world to precise detail. The U.S State Department still uses the maps today due to their accuracy
3. During the height of the cold war, Neil Armstrong's final task on the moon was to place memorial items honoring fallen Russian cosmonauts.
4. During the cold war, when navy divers repairing a whale enclosure heard a human-like voice saying "out, out, out," and got out of the water to see nobody, they found out that a beluga whale named "Noc" had learned to mimic human speech and was trying to communicate with them.
5. In God, We Trust was placed on all U.S. bills during the Cold War as a way to express the United States' anti-communist beliefs
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6Codename Fedora
One of the most successful KGB agents of the Cold War had the codename, Fedora. He infiltrated the UN and sabotaged the US by providing false information ie. a Fedora tip.
7. Because of cold war regulations, every street in China is in slightly the wrong place on Google Maps.
8. The Soviet Union and the United States were originally in talks to go to the moon together during the Cold War. Nikita Khruschev was poised to accept the plan but then President Kennedy was assassinated. The Soviets did not trust Vice President Johnson, so Khrushchev rejected the plan.
9. Nuclear bombers from the Cold War were typically painted white or with a white underside to reflect light from the nuclear blast it would deliver, the paint is called "anti-flash white"
10. Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion
