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TIL that the speed of light was first measured accurately in 1676 by Danish astronomer Ole Rømer using observations of Jupiter’s moons, without modern technology

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9WoQ TIL before WWII Henry Ford sent thousands of US workers to Soviet Union in order to establish a Ford licenced factory. The project was a huge disaster and the workers were abandoned by Ford and the US government. Most of them died in Soviet gulags, less than a hundred ever came back.
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