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TIL That the Soviet Union unknowingly sold Titanium to CIA dummy companies that was used in the creation of the A-12 Cygnus (Predecessor to the SR71 Black Bird) that was being built to spy on the Soviet Union

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yVlWX TIL about the Great Green Wall — a UN project to stop the Sahara from expanding south
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