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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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4XmY6 Today I learned that when the PBS Newshour lists their major financial contributors at the end of the program, the "Rosalind P. Walter" they thank is Rosie the Riveter.
yVkJ8 TIL there has been one member of the US Congress that was born into royalty. Prince Jonah Kuhio was Hawaiian nobility before the territory was annexed and he served in the House of Reps from 1903-1922. Happy Prince Kuhio Day / 152nd Bday!
knKB TIL Truck driving is the most common job in most states in the U.S., due in part to being immune to globalization and automation.
epygb TIL Robert Todd Lincoln was present at two Presidential assassinations, his father’s not one of them. He also had his life saved by the brother of John Wilkes Booth.
d8ORE TIL Martin Luther King Sr was also a civil rights activist who lived until 1984