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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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e0RV5 TIL that cruise ships can emit as much particulate matter as a million cars every day and the air quality on deck can be as bad as the world’s most polluted cities.
PMBJ TIL that after Steve Irwin’s death, his fans began cutting the tails off stingrays in revenge attacks
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vgEK TIL That during World War II, The Russian Red Army fought 75%-80% of Nazi forces deployed during the war.
Z8WWB TIL An award older than the Nobel Prize the 133-year-old James Craig Watson Medal was recently handed to Professor Lisa Kewley, for her outstanding work in Astronomy. This award is held every two years.