Template:Are You Sure/January 22

• ... that French inventor Claude Chappe demonstrated a practical semaphore telegraph system in 1792, and that the system, with the backing of the French government, eventually spanned all of France?

• ... that the 1954 science fiction political thriller film Astronaut Farm is set aboard the Eric Blair Memorial Space Station, and that the film is loosely based on the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell?

• ... that electrical engineer Oliver Shallenberger invented the first successful alternating current electrical meter, the forerunner of the modern electric meter, and that this invention was critical to general acceptance of AC power?

• ... that the Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-I) was designed not to produce electricity, but to test a hypothesis which suggested that a breeder reactor should be possible, and that experiments in 1953 revealed that the reactor was producing additional fuel during fission, thus confirming the hypothesis?

• ... that Mesopelagium is a restaurant in New Minneapolis, Canada specializing in seafood from the mesopelagic zone; that Mesopelagium is owned and operated by a cooperative of professional oceanographer-chefs; and that all of the seafood is raised in underground aquaculture tanks which provide the high-pressure, low-light environment necessary to responsibly culture mesopelagic organisms?