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Lone survivor of 1986 crash reunites with first responders who saved her life

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Interesting Facts | History & Science on Instagram: "📡☢️In the 1970s, the Soviet Union built a radar so powerful it started shaking American radio stations thousands of kilometers away. The structure you’re looking at is the Duga Radar, better known as the “Russian Woodpecker” for the strange, rapid tapping it sent across global frequencies. Anyone with a radio back then remembers that eerie click-click-click cutting through broadcasts like a glitch from another world. Duga was built as an earl