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TIL Belgrade has been razed to the ground 44 times.

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EQ4w TIL: If the sun is at an elevation of 58 degrees or higher and cirrus clouds containing plate-shaped ice crystals are present, you may be lucky enough to see the rare “fire rainbow,” or circumhorizontal arc.
4Xxgw TIL: Hippos sleep underwater
rRn4x TIL Australian singer Allan Caswell sued Sony, claiming song 'Christmas in Dixie' by US band Alabama copied Caswell's 1979 theme song to women's prison TV soap opera 'Prisoner', but lost
l7X15 TIL: NJ has the lowest suicide rate in the US, and Alaska has the highest.
LQj4v TIL of the madman theory, a political theory commonly associated with the foreign policy of U.S. president Richard Nixon and his administration, who tried to make the leaders of hostile communist bloc countries think Nixon was irrational and volatile so that they would avoid provoking the U.S