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TIL the Yezidis/Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking minority who follow pre-Islamic Iranian/Kurdish religious beliefs

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NX7x6 TIL Taushiro, Tanema and Kaixana are the least spoken languages in the world, with only one speaker each. They are languages of Peru, Solomon Islands and Brazil, respectively.
R55w6 TIL how trains turn, without a differential. The wheels should create massive friction under the heavy loads. It is solved by conical wheels.
6AG8 TIL that at the end of the Vietnam War, the USS Midway crew pushed $10mil of helicopters into the sea so that a Cessna full of evacuees could land on the deck.
VMoKB TIL there is a supermassive void in space called the Boötes void and if the Milky Way had been in the center of the void, we wouldn't have known there were other galaxies until the 1960s. The void is 0.27% the width of the entire observable universe.
RY99 TIL of Cocaine Bear, AKA Pablo Eskobear. The bear died in a National Forest in Kentucky in ‘85 after ingesting a portion of 75lbs of coke ($15mil value) that had been dropped by a drug-smuggling, corrupt, fugitive lawyer who had been parachuting with it before falling to his death.