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TIL during the opening of 1936 Olympic,Adolph Hitler made a speech which was broadcasted in 41 countries.Due to the high frequency of the signal,it escaped the earth ionosphere.Carl Sagan wrote his book Contact,on alien-human encounter based on this platform that alien heard Hitlers voice first.

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