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TIL China is leading world efforts in Molten Salt Reactor technology (safer nuclear power), hoping to commercially deploy them by 2030.

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X0OA8 TIL "Cougar", "Mountain Lion", "Puma", AND "Panther" are all different names for the same big cat
4O6o TIL In Arizona, it is legal for any citizen to carry a gun, but it is illegal to carry nunchucks.
rEye TIL “freeway” Rick Ross was a cocaine kingpin in 1980’s Los Angeles, at one point making 2-3 million dollars a week. The kicker? He was illiterate and his cocaine supplier was the CIA, who sold cocaine to illegally finance the Nicaraguan Contras.
05LN TIL that only parents who believe sugar will cause hyperactivity in their children will notice the effect, while parents that do not believe in it are extremely less likely to notice hyperactivity in their children.
lodb7 TIL researchers have developed an IVF-like process called IVG (in vitro gametogenesis) - The process uses skin cells to create human egg and sperm cells. It could allow sterile parents to conceive and same sex couples could eventually have children who are biologically related to both parents.