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TIL: There is something called 'The Glitter Conspiracy'. One of the largest producers of glitter doens't want to tell what tge glitter is used for. Theories range from the use in explosives to boats

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v1o9D TIL Ida B. Wells won a Pulitzer Prize last year (2020) "for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching", 89 years after she died.
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