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TIL about Vardavar: an Armenian festival during which people spend a day throwing water on each other.

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OG5X7 TIL about Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani Christian child labourer and activist who campaigned against abusive child labour in Pakistan. He was assassinated at the age of 12 for his outspoken activism.
j6jeE TIL that van Gogh didn't die unrecognized. His works were featured in two major exhibitions and praised by many successful artists in his last few months before his suicide.
XxwE TIL that cargo ships leave the equivalent of contrails along their route that can be seen from space. Water molecules accumulate on pollutants coming from the exhaust of ships which essentially seeds clouds. These clouds are known as ship tracks.
KALE TIL Prostitution isn’t and has never been illegal in Canada
XEXvE TIL that during WW2, the Ukrainian and Polish partisans fought a bloody civil war concurrent with the German and Soviet invasions. Both sides committed heinous atrocities that killed tens of thousands of Polish and Ukrainian civilians.