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TIL that the first time a non-American won the Pulitzer Prize was in 1938. That year, the Edmonton Journal newspaper won for fighting against the Accurate News and Information Act, a piece of legislation created by Alberta premier William Aberhart to stifle his critics in the free press.

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WkJb8 TIL Vitaminwater is basically sugar-water, to which about a penny's worth of synthetic vitamins have been added. A bottle of vitaminwater contains 33 grams of sugar, making it more akin to a soft drink than to a healthy beverage
7RYL TIL the European Bison or ‘wisent’ exists and was considered extinct in the wild in 1927. Since then, this species has been reintroduced in many European countries. They are making an amazing comeback and now are no longer considered an endangered species
YpVpd TIL "Chicken Sexism" - Over 45 million male chicks are slaughtered every year in Germany alone as they are considered useless in modern poultry farming.
wLbXo TIL that technically cats domesticated humans rather than the other way around, as they saw the advantage of living with humans. Thus for millennia the DNA "domesticated" cats remained largely the same as when they were "wild", as no selective breeding was needed to make them tame.
0wEwA TIL the left and the right only believe facts that follow their conditioned narrative, and completely silence, deplatform or block truth and factual information they oppose.