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TIL Romani people in Turkey

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e7OD TIL that Scooby Doo’s full name is “Scoobert Doo.” Scoobert. Doo.
e0xYk TIL that Readjuster Party, led by two former Confederate officers in post-Civil-War Virginia, abolished the poll tax, abolished the public whipping post, funded public schools for African Americans, hired African Americans as teachers, and founded the historically black Virginia State University.
16nBX TIL drying hands is as important as washing them
rNnM1 TIL about Nurkhon Yuldashkhojayeva, an Uzbek actress and one of the first Uzbek women to dance onstage without a burqa on. She became the victim of an honor killing in 1929.
071A TIL that there is a single that was featured on the Billboard charts in 1979, but no copy of the song is known to exist today