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TIL Afghanistan shares a 46-mile border with China. Marco Polo used it in his Silk Road travels. It's rumored to have a fort Alexander the Great was not able to conquer, and it has one of the largest untouched copper mines in the world.

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a8pQN TIL That General Leslie Groves who was the Director of the Manhattan Project, which help develop the first atomic bomb, had previously been in charge of the construction of the office building which would eventually become the Pentagon.
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