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R5V08
TIL GPS satellites go so fast, that they need to adjust their location calculations to account for Relativity
ovJK
TIL that the atomic clocks aboard GPS satellites are programmed to compensate for time dilation due to General Relativity. Otherwise, after just one day, GPS devices would show coordinates that would be off by around 10Km!