› added 12 years ago

95

TIL that Tunisia and Turkey are the only Muslim-majority countries which have banned the hijab in public schools and universities or government buildings.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

NXeM6 TIL that nearly 25% of the world's population is Muslim
pYMn8 TIL Cotton Eye Joe is a Swedish song, not American
k70B TIL there is an entire village in India whose main export is muscular men to be bouncers at city nightclubs.
lomDV TIL that in 1975, Roslyn Mayor William Craven, the first African-American mayor in the state of Washington, was elected with 272 votes, while his opponent only got 33.
0wNgj TIL that in 1959 Colonel William Rankin became the only known person to survive a fall through a cumulonimbus thunderstorm cloud and suffered from frostbite, welts, bruises, and severe decompression as a result of the 40 minute fall.