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This is about the Jedda Tower, J-E-D-D-A-H.

Yeah.

Thanks to Architectural Digest and CNN and how stuff works for this stuff.

But this is the story of if it's finished, eventually, will be, at least for a while, the tallest building in the world.

Yeah, it's going to make the Birch Khalifa look like poop.

So let's go back to 2008.

There was a billionaire investor named Prince,

Al-Awi bin Talal of Saudi Arabia.

And I think his goal was to make the Burj Khalifa look like poop.

He was like, I want to make one taller.

I want to build a city and around it called

the Jetta Economic City. Terrible name. Yeah. And basically, like, they wanted to compete with Dubai,

but in Saudi Arabia. Right. Because Dubai is in the UAE. And he wanted to build the first skyscraper to reach

over 3,280 feet or higher. And for those of

us in the United States and for our friends in Liberia, that is a kilometer. So this would be the

first kilometer high building, which is mind-bogglingly tall. And he's doing it, baby. In 2000, well, I guess they made it

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