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TIL The house of Gavrilo Princip, assassin of Franz Ferdinand, was destroyed in WW1. It was then rebuilt as a museum and was then destroyed during WW2. Afterwards it was rebuilt, only to be destroyed in the Yugoslav Wars. It was again rebuilt in 2015.

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