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TIL of the extinct sport of Barrel Jumping existed with a record jump of 18 barrels (nearly 30’!)

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PY4mL TIL Carl Wieman, recipient of the 2001 Nobel in Physics, delivered a lecture outlining how he created a new state of matter called Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC). Einstein predicted BEC in 1925, and Wieman's techniques to make it in 1995 involved laser cooling and magnetic trapping on atoms