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"textContent": "\n\nThe U.S. War Department made this training film in 1944 to explain frequency modulation to soldiers, and it opens with the perfect sales pitch: two GIs playing ping pong while listening to the radio. A third man fires up an electric razor, and the AM signal turns to mush. — Read the rest \n\nThe post The War Department's 1944 guide to FM radio is still a great explainer appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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