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TIL in 1946, a Georgia Tech Graduate Student and amateur photographer rushed to the seen of a hotel fire and snapped a photo that would would win him a Pulitzer. The photo is of a woman jumping from the 11th story to escape the flames, and led to new safety regulations across the US

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