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TIL: prosecutors have absolute immunity for falsification of evidence and the coercion of witnesses

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4XQy6 TIL that Vatican City has the highest wine consumption per capita in the world. The average citizen consumes 76 bottles per year
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9wrrM TIL that in 2007 it was announced that U2 were involved in a project to build the U2 Tower, an apartment building in Dublin which also housed their recording studio. It would have been the tallest building in Ireland if completed but it was cancelled due to the 2008 economic downturn in the country.
OowGL TIL that the Halifax Explosion was one of the reasons for the establishment of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.
9Y676 TIL Serbian is practically the only European language whose speakers are fully functionally digraphic: that is, they commonly use two different alphabets to read and write (Cyrillic and Latin)