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TIL Charles Lindbergh was a fascist and made several trips to nazi Germany in the 1930’s to inspect its Air Force. President Roosevelt privately called him a nazi.

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eGR4 TIL that a molten-salt reactor, a piece of technology conceived during the Cold War that forgoes solid nuclear fuel for a liquid one, can generate energy with far greater efficiency than any power technology in existence.
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