gingercomiealt
gingercomiealt t1_j1rzhsp wrote
Reply to comment by jokes_on_you in TIL in 1968 the state of Florida began to build a gigantic airport for supersonic jets in the Florida Everglades but was stopped by an environmental coalition after a federal report found the project would “inexorably destroy the south Florida ecosystem” and the Everglades by MustacheEmperor
Yeah fuck our wetlands
America was meant to be a big parking lot
gingercomiealt t1_jaac7j8 wrote
Reply to TIL that when epidemiologist Tamara Safonova and virologist Alexandra Sheboldaeva discovered Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus in 1937, they were accused of spreading the virus themselves and sentenced to 18 years in Soviet labor camps. by SecretAgentIceBat
Science in the Soviet union was definitely fucky until Stalin died