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TIL India has the highest number of mosques in the world - 300,000

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wLey8 TIL that the clapperboard ???? is used to later sync the sound and the picture.
kblE TIL The Civil War started in Wilmer McLean’s backyard and ended in his Parlor despite the fact that he moved nearly 120 miles away after it had started
4kKAX TIL a man walked 1,300-miles for publicity to win an election and he succeeded
VMgYZ TIL of 102-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand who held the 100-plus category one-hour record of 24 kilometres and 251 metres until he broke his own record at the age of 102 years riding 26 kilometers and 927 metres in one hour.
4X0P6 TIL that our solar system's planet configuration is quite unusual and that it is more common for extrasolar planetary systems to have larger planets close to their suns, as opposed to our solar system which has small terrestial planets closer in, followed by the gas giants further away