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TIL : Belgrade (capital city of Serbia) has one of the greatest strategic positions, in fact so big, that there were 115 battles for it and it was destroyed about 40 times.

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a8gvy TIL Janet Jackson's 1989 classic 'Rhythm Nation' can make some laptops crash
ANAZ4 TIL the word for father is "mama" in most of the western Australian Aboriginal languages. The word for mother is also "papa" in a subset of these languages.
KAr4 TIL the first thing sold on the Internet (‘94) was a pizza from Pizza Hut
WkWBd TIL that a giant tortoise species was believed to be extinct for 113 years, only for it to be discovered again in Galápagos, 2019.
GDJ4 TIL a man died in a helmet law protest while not wearing a helmet when he crashed his motorcycle. Medical experts say he would have survived if he had a helmet on during the accident.