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TIL the largest Embassy in the world is the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. It cost $750 million to build, employs 16,000 people and costs $6 billion a year to run.

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GXxj TIL after outlaw Big George Nose was killed, the doctor’s performing the autopsy turned his skull into an ashtray and his skin into shoes. The doctor that kept the skull was the first female doctor in Wyoming and the doctor that kept the shoes wore them to his inauguration as governor of Wyoming
VoJk TIL France is the second largest hip hop market in the world
B0lW TIL there’s an alien visitor featured in every episode of South Park– sometimes in a flash-frame, sometimes in posters, in the background, etc.
E1M40 TIL the Mediterranean island country of Malta has been inhabited since around 5900 BCE, and has been ruled by the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Greeks, Arabs, Normans, Aragonese, Knights of Malta, French and British, all before becoming independent in 1964.
Q61d TIL that The parliament of Iceland, established in 930, is the oldest active parliament in the world.