How Monopoly saved POWs in WWII

I was watching and episode of one of my favorite television shows called "What History Forgot" on the "American Heroes Channel" and it tells about events in American history that are very little known. One episode told about this topic, which I am sharing with you all today.

During the height of German control in Europe during World War Two, the POW (prisoner of war) camps were cram packed with British soldiers. Sometimes the Red Cross would drop board games for the soldiers. If you were lucky you might get a Monopoly game. These weren't just any Monopoly games, they had supplies hidden inside. They were recognizable by a red dot on the game board. Some of the supplies included a map of Germany printed on silk. It was printed on silk because it was easy to fold, water proof, and quite to fold, German, Italian, and French money in the Monopoly money. One of the most underpaid jobs was guarding POWS, so guards were easily bribed into setting off the alarm hours after they escaped. A compass in the playing token, Metal files, a handheld cutting saw that was a circle of wire that had metal beads on it. It could saw through metal and steel in no time at all. It is estimated that that thousands of POWS escaped, but the British government made them swear to secrecy, so they could use it in a later war. It wasn't until 2007 that they reveled their tactics.
This Monopoly board is showed with the dot, the map, and the box of extra stuff.

The Space Race

“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth.” - President John F. Kennedy, May 25, 1961

 The Space Race began in 1957, and ended in 1975, and it was between the United Sates, and the Soviet Union. It was also one of the largest parts of The Cold War, along with The Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The first event in The Space Race was First intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), but the most famous early event was the Soviet launch of Sputnik One. Sputnik One was just a satellite, orbiting the Moon, but the Soviets made an even more impressive discover in Sputnik Two, which carried a dog. The Soviets and the United States take turns launching Stuff into space, but the next big breakthrough happened in April 12,1961, Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin, was the very first man in space.Finally the United States started to work hard to land a man on the Moon. Carrying Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin took liftoff on July 16, 1969. It took them three days to reach the Moon, and three days to return. There are many conspiracy theorists that think the Moon landing was fake, but some of our greatest scientific minds, (The Mythbusters) proved them wrong. Several more Apollo missions and Russian Soyuz programs followed. By landing one the Moon the U.S. figuratively won, but the Race didn't end until 1975. Little side information the word Luna or Lunar is Latin, adoption in Russian, to mean Moon. And this is Sputnik (left) and Apollo 11 (right).