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A big thanks to everyone who participated in our Factz contest to win a Powerset t-shirt! It was a lot of fun to see people’s motivation and creativity in finding Factz. Here are some of our favorite blog posts.

Megha Agrawal wrote an excellent post about researching "at the speed of light." She concluded his blog post by saying, “So if you’re having a class assignment due by tomorrow and you don’t have time to thoroughly read and understand the topic you can make use of the Powerset Factz that are fun to discover about a particular subject.”

Christian Straub found answers to questions such as Who killed jfk? This query is a great example of how Factz can directly answer a question, as well as provide further reading on a topic. Christian jokingly lamented that, “Powerset has actually managed to get me to waste more time (or educate myself more?) on Wikipedia. Instead of clicking at random links in random articles (which is still awesome by the way), you can type a subject or a question or a relation, and Powerset will often find some interesting factoids relating them."

Yuanjie Liu from China wrote a great post that included the query What did Thomas Edison invent? These Factz provide insights on Thomas Edison and the light bulb, pulling relevant Factz triples from articles such as “Timeline of electricity,” “Precursors of film,” and “Edisonian approach.”

In his blog, Visish Srinivasan used a query related to his research: epigenetic. The results from Factz found the relation between epigenetic and senescence. He wrote, “Impressively enough, clicking on that actually mentions exactly what I’ll be researching - epigenetic phenomenon and their relation to the causes of senescence.”

Steven P. Sanderson was especially ambitious and had a multitude of Factz queries on his blog. Our favorite was what does Microsoft own? which returns an easy to scan list of information strewn throughout Wikipedia.

Other Factz posts include: Caitlin Bales, Catherine H van Zuylen, Anand Kishore, James Grimes, Jr., Matt McMahon, Sandeep Sripada, Raveesh Meena, Nitin Karandikar , Mardav Wala, Becca Schonberg, Darren Louie, Richard Bradshaw, Boyan Yurukov, Rajesh Balakrishnan, eric, Dan Tam, Patrick Traughber, Vilson Vieira

For those of you that didn’t get a t-shirt but still want one, we’ll probably run another contest like this in the future, so stay tuned.