the soviet union's first toilet paper factory was built in 1969, 8 years after their first manned space flight.

during the battle of leningrad, the soviet police formed a special unit to investigate cases of cannibalism.

during the cold war, the u.s. government supplied afghan schools with textbooks filled with violent images and militant versions of islamic teachings to get them to rebel against the u.s.s.r. it worked... until we tried to take the u.s.s.r.'s place.

the soviet union landed 6 probes on venus, despite temperatures in excess of of 855 degreees fahrenheit, and successfully transmitted photos back to earth.

in the 1920's, under lenin and trotsky, the soviet union was the first country in the word to decriminalize homosexuality. it was recriminalized in 1933 by stalin.