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

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YorP TIL The Stethoscope was invented because French physician Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec felt uncomfortable placing his face on a woman’s breasts to listen to her heartbeat
7BEr TIL: That American toilets clog so much because they have a trapway half the size of the trapway in an Australian or NZ Toilet
6EbJQ TIL Although there is no drug proven to make someone tell the truth some countries, even today, use truth serums
oRB8A TIL about the 1642 execution of George Spencer in Connecticut. He was accused of beastiality after a sow had birthed a deformed one eyed piglet.
p8aVQ TIL after a Japanese Destroyer rammed the ship Naval Lieutenant John F. Kennedy was on during WW2, Kennedy swam for 5 hours towards an island while towing one of his badly burned crewman by clasping a scrap of the crewman's lifejacket between his teeth despite sustaining a back injury from the crash