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TIL Charles Barkley was the first black baby born at a segregated, all-white town hospital in Leeds, Alabama and was in the first group of black students at his elementary school.

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kJvRe TIL the difference between a violin and a fiddle isn't the number of snares, shape, size, or anything physical but rather what is being played on it. Classical, Chamber Music, and Jazz for instance are played with a violin. Genres like Folk, Country, Pop, and Rock are played with a fiddle.
ADR1a TIL that must of us can recognize the lower case loop-tail form of ‘g’, but for the life of us, most of us can’t draw it.
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