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TIL Kepler-62e is one of several recently discovered water world planets in the habitable zone of its parent star

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ne9Er TIL there's a Buddhist majority republic in Europe called Kalmykia. It's part of Russia, many inhabitants are ethnically Mongolian and it's capital features several beautiful Buddhist temples.
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