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TIL Belgrade has been razed to the ground 44 times.

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D1NlV TIL the McIlhenny Company is one of just a few U.S. companies to have received a royal warrant of appointment that certifies the company as a supplier to Queen Elizabeth II. The warrant held is "Supplier of Tabasco HM The Queen – Master of the Household – Granted in 2009".
wolE1 TIL In 2017, a Scottish widower launched 2000 messages in bottles in an attempt to find love. He got 50 potential dates, and multiple angry responses from locals and environmental agencies.
GYYk1 TIL outdoor cats are the #1 threat to bird populations. They have contributed to the extinction of 33 bird populations and are responsible for roughly 2.4 billion in bird losses per year.
BdNd TIL that there is a “three generations of punishment” sentence in North Korea. This means a person would be sent to the camp along with that person’s entire family and two subsequent generations of family members would be born in prison and live their entire lives there.
E1JM0 TIL that the Vatican is accused by Serbs, Jews and Roma of laundering millions of dollars of stolen gold and jewelry, plundered from concentration camp prisoners in Croatia, immediately after WW2. It is also alleged that they helped several notorious Nazi leaders hide and escape