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TIL that Saddam built a palace in ancient city of Babylon which later became a US military base

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K7kJ TIL the Iranian Embassy in Washington, D.C. in the 1970s was an extravagant nonstop party-house that attracted movie stars, politicians, and socialites alike to partake in endless decadence and hedonism, from champagne and caviar to sexual favors and recreational drugs
Y7RQP TIL the featured speaker at Gettysburg was Edward Everett, not Lincoln. He gave a 2 hour speech preceding the Gettysburg Address. After, he wrote to Lincoln "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes."
XEkME TIL that every point in Colorado is higher than every point in Minnesota, and every point in Minnesota is higher than every point in Florida.
GYavN TIL in 1946, the United States tried to buy Greenland for $100,000,000
R5bva TIL that the Backstreet Boys have never had a number 1 hit single in the United States