› added 3 months ago

14

TIL that the largest embassy in the world is the U.S embassy in Iraq. It cost $750 million to build and is larger than the Vatican City.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ADPv4 TIL singer Edwyn Collins suffered a cerebral hemorrhage which left him able to say only four things: "yes", "no", "Grace Maxwell" (his wife's name) and "the possibilities are endless"
NXlXJ TIL slavery was practiced in present-day Romania from the founding of the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia in 13th-14th century, until it was abolished in stages during the 1840s and 1850s. Most of the enslaved people were of Romany ethnicity.
4XrLa TIL: Dalgona coffee is a beverage made by whipping equal proportions of instant coffee, sugar and hot water until it becomes creamy and then adding it to cold or hot milk
glGD TIL that one of the most sacred shrines in Japan is torn down and rebuilt every 20 years. This has been going on for over 1,000 years, and some records indicate it may have started 2,000 years ago.
pYG5A TIL that John Maynard Keynes, from whose work the modern economic system is derived, was a Marxist.