Viewing the file with whitespace visible in vim shows that there are strange combinations of tabs and spaces at the end of each line.
Assuming there’s more to whitespace than meets the eye, we search for all non-whitespace characters:
…and remove them. We also delete every other line, which contains nothing more than a single tab.
Converting each space to a zero and each tab to a one reveals:
Now we just view the data as ASCII!
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