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TIL that Nazi Germany had a research programme (Wunderwaffe) that included a stealth bomber, night vision, a 1,500 ton super tank, submarine aircraft carrier, an x-ray gun, and a satellite with a concave mirror to “make an ocean boil or burn a city”.

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