Hey there, I've got something a little different for you today. I've been listening to this new

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World War II to help advance military technology,

or that in the 1950s, the Army conducted a hush-hush biological experiment by releasing bacteria

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On July 19, 1953,

Kermit Roosevelt stood at the border crossing between Iraq and Iran, enjoying a cigarette outside of the cement Border Patrol building that marked the entry point into Iran.

Semi trucks rumbled along the highway while border patrol agents checked papers and cargo trailers

before granting them entry into the country. Kermit took a final drag on the cigarette, then

stomped it out and walked into the dull beige-painted Iranian government building.

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