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... that Charles Stross's science-fiction novel Singularity Sky inspired a proposal to undermine the Taliban by giving every Afghan a free mobile phone?
... that from 1955 to 1973, the United States conducted a scientific initiative aimed at producing gravity-manipulation technology?
... that Salmson 2 (pictured), along with the Breguet 14, was the main reconnaissance aircraft of the French army in World War One?

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