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TIL Šćepan Mali became the first and only tsar of Montenegro based on a mere rumor.

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vVO8 TIL Ziad Jarrah, one of the hijackers in the 9/11 attacks, had always wanted to be a pilot but his father discouraged him. He later cited his reasoning: “I only have one son and I was afraid that he would crash.”
W7d48 TIL that Cpt. Kirk & Lt. Uhura's kiss from Star Trek was NOT the first interracial kiss on Television.
dWmQ TIL in a village in India, people plant 111 trees for every girl born
nW0lW TIL the Irish Elk, a deer type that went extinct around 7,700 years ago, had the largest antlers of any known deer (span 3.5 metres across), which developed because female elk chose their mates based on antler size. In the end, alongside human hunting, it contributed to the species extinction.
Y7ZK7 TIL Greenland was so remote that no-one realised the Viking settlements had died out until 1721, when missionaries visited the island expecting to find Norsemen who may have relapsed to paganism and instead found ruins.