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TIL that the U.S. and China are collaborating on developing a thorium molten salt nuclear reactor.

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mxgpy TIL a single worksheet on Microsoft Excel contains 16,384 rows and 1,048,576 columns, for a total of 17,179,869,184 cells.
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mxyyO TIL that roads are built to accommodate whatever uses them and back in Ancient Rome this was a chariot or two horses asses, which was than used to gauge railway, which was than used to gauge the solid rocket boosters on the space shuttle.
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