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TIL Belgrade has been razed to the ground 44 times.

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W7bEY TIL the Stave Falls Power House was once British Columbia's largest source of electricity and the first automated powerhouse in the Commonwealth
QJdEe TIL when the writers of LOST were pitching the show to ABC, the network was very concerned about the show being too serialized and genre based so they lied to ABC that you could drop in and watch from any episode, the show would be shot on a soundstage and there will be "no ultimate mystery".
1ax98 TIL about Chris Sevier, a Utah County man who sued the county commissioner for refusing to issue a marriage license for Sevier and his computer.
p8NEN TIL Life expectancy at birth was a brief 25 years during the Roman Empire, it reached 33 years by the Middle Ages and raised up to 55 years in the early 1900s.
YA8G TIL Lincoln Logs were invented by John Lloyd Wright, son of the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.