One of the most valuable stashes in human history was discovered buried in an old mine in Lower Saxony. It wasn’t a precious mineral or ancient object—no, it was paper. In the newest video from Popular Science, we tell the incredible and lesser known tale of how 14 tons of buried paper influenced the space race.
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