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TIL the Dungan people of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan speak Chinese but use a Cyrillic alphabet because they were under Soviet rule before.

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oBkyY TIL the New York City Blackout of 1977 helped ignite the Hip-Hop scene. Prior to the outage, there was only a handful of DJ’s in the area, which was suffering economically. After, there were over a 1000 DJ’s due to people looting the music equipment stores during the blackout. Hip-hop had exploded.
E4bW TIL as of 2011 the Catholic Church operates the world’s largest non-governmental school system
NXAd8 TIL Timbuktu is an ancient city in Mali, North Africa.
gMyOD TIL James Earl Ray was not arrested until two months after MLK’s assassination and had traveled to Canada, Portugal and England.
njBb TIL that in 2008, a group of hackers posted multiple links to flashing strobe animation on an epilepsy forum.