Iran's National pastime: Stargazing

Yet another thing most Americans don't know about Islam: It encourages Astronomy.
So much so in fact, that people living in a small desert village about 400 miles south of Tehran, donated what few spare coins they had, with many women selling their jewelry, so local science teacher Asghar Kabiri could build an observatory.
He told CNN the structure is the "pride of the town."

Seems to me most Americans would rather build a Dairy Queen in their town than an observatory....