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TIL of Ryan M. Kelly who found out he won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of the Charlottesville's attack on the same day he quit his job as a photo journalist to go work for a brewery.

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JYovQ TIL that the name "quark" for subatomic particles was inspired by the book Finnegans Wake. Physicist Murray Gell-Mann coined the term after seeing the following passage in the book: ‘Three quarks for Muster Mark!’.
xQx0 TIL in 2008 a drunk guy faced battery charges after he was accused of farting and fanning the odorous gas toward a police officer.
r0VM TIL that the Los Zetas cartel was formed by a group of commando’s who defected from the Mexican army in the late 1990s. It is considered by the U.S. government to be the “most technologically advanced, sophisticated, and dangerous cartel operating in Mexico.”
xgx7 TIL Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
5Y5jk TIL that in 1993 A 21.94m (72ft) condom was fitted over the Obelisque in Place de la Concorde, Paris, France to mark World AIDS Day.