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Most textbooks say that nothing can go faster than light, but that statement actually should be qualified: The answer is yes, you can break the light barrier, but not in the way we see in the movies. There are, in fact, several ways to travel faster than light...

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dpB7 TIL that between 1969 and 1972, there were 276 hijacked airplanes (an average of about 1 every 5 days).
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