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TIL Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for his album "DAMN."

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Oooa1 TIL that 'The Wall' by Pink Floyd was banned in South Africa in 1980 after the song was adopted by supporters of a nationwide school boycott protesting racial inequities in education under the apartheid regime.
lov11 TIL in 1850 Milk in New York was so contaminated that caused 8000 infants deaths in just one year.
LkA1p TIL that 5 of the 6 longest bridges in the US are in Louisiana.
Z6BB TIL that the Bob Marley’s Redemption song refrain “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free the mind” quotes a speech given in Nova Scotia by African American civil rights activist Marcus Garvey in 1937.
JYxbm TIL Michael Phelps’ body produces half the normal amount of lactic acid of his competitors. Causing his body to fatigue much slower.