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TIL that an artist set up an installation in a Namibian desert to play Toto's Africa for all eternity

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6ag8 TIL In 1987, a 19-year old West German named Matthias Rust landed a small plane in Red Square in Moscow. With a combination of luck and human error, he flew over 500 miles from Helsinki, evading the largest air defense system in the world. He told Soviet authorities he was on a peace mission.
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