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TIL The Netherlands has nuclear waste facilities that double as art museums

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neAy7 TIL the medals in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are made from metals recovered from recycled cell phones collected since 2017.
rDyy TIL about the Integral Fast Reactor, a nuclear reactor that is fully sealed and will not require refueling until the end of plant life. It is also meltdown-proof, and can reuse its fuel many times by reprocessing fuel using robotic arms sealed with the reactor. None exist today because of politics.
m1xZM TIL an author created a 1000 page book that is made up of a single run on sentence.
xV7v1 TIL: Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell wrote a secret memo detailing the duty of judges to protect American business executives. "One does not exaggerate to say that, in terms of political influence that the American business executive is truly the “forgotten man.”
yQ0yv TIL of the rank of six-star general, which in USA has awarded only to two living people, and posthumously in 1976 to George Washington.