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TIL that the mosque in Norilsk, Russia, 300 km north of the Arctic Circle, is the most northernly-situated mosque in the world, and that its minaret tower - which traditionally has a round shape - has a square base. That is so the bricks will not freeze and be more resistant to wind loads.

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