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TIL in 1997 physicists at the University of Geneva sent photons seven miles in opposite directions and demonstrated that interfering with one provoked an instantaneous response in the other.

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ODb1 TIL that Yoda, from Star Wars, was modeled after the appearance of Albert Einstein.
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