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TIL George Washington preferred pot to alcohol

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ebDJ TIL China is leading world efforts in Molten Salt Reactor technology (safer nuclear power), hoping to commercially deploy them by 2030.
LQb8P TIL: In 2015, 17 people died and 497 were injured at a water park concert in New Taipei by being being burned alive. Concert organizers did a "color powder party", the cloud of colored cornstarch caught on fire after being fired into the crowd due to deflagration. The fire lasted only 40 seconds.
j6LNN TIL the Iraqi Communist Party is the oldest active party in Iraq, founded in 1934.
wxaW TIL that SEAL Team Six was named so to confuse the Soviets about the actual number of SEAL Teams that were operating. At the time there were only two.
1aNW7 TIL In the 1991 'The Simpsons' episode 'Stark Raving Dad', Michael Jackson played Leon Kompowsky, but, stipulated that he would go uncredited and his singing performance would be performed by a sound alike chosen by Michael.