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

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LdbP TIL - A WW2 Observation pilot got bored of not being in combat and decided to strap 6 bazooka’s to his plane destroying several tanks and armoured vehicles .
80ba TIL the script of Breakin Bad has been sold to a colombian production. They remade it scene by scene with new actors and in spanish. Metastasi.
vPwrj TIL that the Great Fire of London (1666) was made worse due to the indecisiveness of the Lord Mayor, Sir Thomas Bloodworth. He reportedly said, "A woman might piss it out" and shortly later, was close to fainting. It took King Charles II to handle the situation and damages totaled £2 billion
p8r14 TIL That only 3 people have died in space. Russian astronauts: Georgy Dobrovolsky, Viktor Patsayev, Vladislav Volkov were all killed at the same time due to an undocking malfunction in 1971. Whilst there have been fatalities during take-off and re-entry, those 3 are the only to die IN space.
RKD9 TIL Alexander Graham Bell offered to sell his telephone patent to Western Union for $100,000, but they said no because the president considered the telephone an electrical toy with no commercial possibilities.