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TIL Romani people in Turkey

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j7Jj TIL Minnie Riperton wrote the song, “Lovin’ You (is easy ‘cause you’re beautiful)” for her baby daughter…who grew up to be SNL cast member, Maya Rudolph
5V7Qk TIL there's a whole gum wall in Seattle and 2,350 lbs (1,070 kg) of gum was removed in 2015!
wOR8 TIL that in 2017, the US will experience its first total solar eclipse since 1979, and that people from several countries are already trying to make hotel reservations―years in advance!
wB8Y TIL States require more training time to become a barber than a police officer
XEJ5E TIL that the morning singing of birds is called the "dawn chorus". It is mostly male birds that sing in the morning and it is theorized that they do so to show fitness, the air and low ambient noise allows for clearer signal, and it's too dark to really do anything else.