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TIL Of all the high-ranking members of the Nazi party – many of whom were Catholics – only Joseph Goebbels was excommunicated, and he was not excommunicated for his involvement in killing millions of people (mainly Jews), but because he married a Protestant woman.

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N8gP TIL the largest embassy in the world is the U.S embassy in Iraq. It is nearly as large as Vatican City, employs 15,000 people, and cost $750 million to build.
Y776P TIL for the censorship case against Ulysses (a notoriously hard novel to read), the US trial judge forced himself read the entire book so he could judge it properly
vPpRD TIL A 2021 study reported the first known occurrence of pack hunting by electric eels.
XEMK6 TIL in WWI, the Germans disguised one of their ships as the British ship, the RMS Carmania and sent the disguised ship to ambush the British ones. Unluckily, the first ship it encountered was the real RMS Carmania, which promptly sank them
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