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TIL Mumbai in India has the highest concentration of Art Deco style buildings in the world after only Miami, US.

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JYM54 TIL that the Babylonians created the 7 day week because there are 7 celestial bodies visible to the naked eye (The Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn).
wemE TIL Louis C.K. still retains his Mexican Citizenship.
BgB5D TIL that in Italy until 1981, if you caught your daughter or sister having extra-marital sex and killed them, the sentence was just 3-7 years of prison.
paxQ TIL there’s a mountain in Germany that has burned since 1688. The cause is still not totally known today.
wopKM TIL that in the 1960s, thanks to the Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair, it was possible to fly across the English Channel with a car. The aircraft could carry up to 5 of them at a time, with an average of 22 passengers.