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TIL BuzzFeed won a Pulitzer Prize in 2021 for their reporting on the Chinese government's mass detention of Muslims.

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NRQP TIL the Concorde plane used in the disaster film Concorde ‘79, was the same Concorde that would crash in France and kill 113 people 21 years later.
5VLAn TIL Minecraft was inspired by Infiniminer, a multiplayer block-based sandbox building and digging game that had its source code leaked and was discontinued less than a month after its first release
epDw4 TIL that a "dale" is a valley in an otherwise hilly area while a "glen" is a secluded and narrow valley.
1alWX TIL At a specific spot at the Teotihuacan Pyramids clapping creates bird sounds.
7rWnX TIL George Washington mandated the creation of the Contingency Fund for Foreign Intercourse, a secret program comprising 12% of the U.S. government's budget which funded clandestine intelligence gathering missions in Europe, including spies and political subversion.