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TIL: The Integral Fast Reactor can’t meltdown, is 100 times more efficient and recycles its own waste. The government killed it in 1994

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XE5yP TIL that the country of Iraq takes its name from the 5000+ year old Sumerian city of Uruk, home of the legendary King Gilgamesh
5x7k If two pieces of metal with a similar composition (ie, copper on copper) touch in space, they instantly become one. This is a process called “cold welding.”
4vGN TIL that during the Kuwaiti Oil Fires of 1991, Hungarian troops made a fire extinguisher out of a pair of jet engines. Mounted on a tank.
yV8Ea TIL that Technicolor movies were filmed on three rolls of film with the image split using a prism into three color images. Each film roll was then developed and dyed a complimentary primary color and then the three rolls were laminated together to create a full color roll of film
QBWp TIL A study showed that children whose parents placed the children’s pacifiers in their own mouths before giving it to the child were less likely to develop allergies like eczema and asthma later in life.