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TIL the slowest speed of light ever achieved was 17 m/s ( 38 mp/h~ ) in 1998 by shooting a laser through extremely cold sodium atoms.

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nW9Lb TIL for over 100 years the Belgian Army has has a service that's been removing a yearly average of 250 tons of WWI/WWII unexploded ordinance from around Belgium.
78JPX TIL on January 25, 1979, Robert Williams became the first known robot fatality.
ZRko TIL after George Orwell’s death, the CIA secretly bought the rights to 1984 and Animal Farm and clandestinely produced the first film version of 1984 and the critically acclaimed animated film version of Animal Farm.
OGZAL TIL that the jerrycan was invented in Nazi Germany. Jerry, also often phrased as Gerry, was used by the allies when referring to German soldiers. So jerrycan means something like “German can”.
l7NkK TIL that Ron Jeremy is listed in the Guinness Book of Records for most appearances in adult films at +2k films where he 'performed.' His father was a physicist professor at New York's Queens College, while his mother was an US Office of Strategic Services officer and book editor.