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[โ€“] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

China invented fireworks around 1k years ago, but Germany made the first one that went to space (the V2, the same one they used to bomb a bunch of places in WWII), and scientists from Germany helped to develop rockets a lot further after Operation Paperclip