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TIL Red Wave was the first Soviet rock album released in the West. The album was released in 1986 and was made up of songs from underground rock groups and had to be smuggled out of the country to the record producer.

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aJ1M TIL that the Bahá'í Faith is a religion that focuses on unity of all humankind and sees diversity in race and culture as something worthy of appreciation, that all religions believe in the same one God, but each divine prophet (Jesus, Buddha, Moses…) made a religion best suited to its people
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