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TIL Festival of the Sacred Pitcher(Kumbh Mela) is an important Hindu pilgrimage, celebrated approximately every 4 or 12 years in India, correlated with the partial or full revolution of Jupiter. It is the largest peaceful gathering of people in the world.

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