Cool Cold War Trivia Of the Day

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From the current read, "Khruschev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary" by Aleksandr Fursenko (the ex-Soviet half of the team) and Timothy Naftali (the western half of the team):

All Sputnik did was fly, and beep.

Sputnik's beep


There were rumors that the beeps represented encoded messages to KGB spies, or something like that, but they didn't.  They were just beeps.