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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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VMQBZ TIL that the maximum horsepower of one horse is 15 horsepower.
P1xae TIL that at the time of The Titanic’s sinking, a magazine story about a ship sinking from an iceberg collision in the Atlantic was out in circulation. The author of this story Thornton Jenkins Hains, was writing under a pseudonym after having been disgraced in society for involvement in a murder.
1xa4 TIL that JK Rowling told Warner Bros. that Harry Potter had to be filmed in Britain with an all-british cast
v11QR TIL that no Lutheran has ever been elected President of the United Sates.
rGeo TIL The Sustainable Dance Floor uses the kinetic energy produced when people move as a source of energy that is then converted into electricity. People will be able to generate their own energy to illuminate the space around them, just by walking over SEF modules.