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TIL that scientists with the University of Rochester have figured out how to manipulate light into moving at what they think to be negative speeds.

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AD6R4 TIL Queen Elizabeth II likes her steak well-done and dislikes garlic
BrV7D TIL For 10 years, Emerich Juettner printed poorly made counterfeit $1 bills (Washington was spelled Wasihgton). He never used more than $1 at a time and never in the same place twice. He was caught only after a fire at his apartment. He was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, and a $1 fine.
w7KP TIL Kim Jong-il, Great Leader and film-lover, had South Korea’s most famous actress and her director husband kidnapped and held hostage for eight years in order to force them to make movies he liked.
AXPl TIL Lincoln Logs were invented by John Lloyd Wright, son of famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright
JrrV TIL A televangelist called Oral Roberts once told his viewers that if he didn’t receive 8 million dollars in 3 months God would kill him, and that he received over 9 million dollars in that period of time