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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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R7Gw4 TIL the probability of at least "Low-Level Intelligent Life" on other planets in the Milky Way is as high as 75%.
9bpD TIL Alcohol is the most dangerous drug to withdrawal from.
LQbM9 TIL of Earp’s Vendetta Ride, a deadly search carried out by Wyatt Earp searching for the cowboys responsible for maiming his brother Virgil and killing his brother Morgan in the Arizona Territory. The search will end with 4 dead and an arrest warrant being issued for Wyatt.
ZpmnQ TIL that a production flaw meant CD's manufactured by the UK branch of Philips and Dupont Optical (PDO) between 1988 and 1993 would be able to react with their own paper booklets and be rendered unreadable.
PYDG TIL: In 1908, Tesla predicted the Internet but with all our devices using wireless electricity to boot.