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TIL that Billboard's list of top played country music songs was originally known as the "Hillbilly Records" chart, later changing to "Country and Western" in 1949.

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MBdA TIL “Black Wall Street”, the most affluent black neighbourhood in the early 20th century, was nearly wiped out by white residents massacring the black population in 1921
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