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TIL that a 90s Canadian action series, "Tropical Heat", became a suprise hit in Serbia. The main character (Rob Stewart's "Nick Slaughter") became a hero and symbol of the 1996 opposition against Slobodan Milošević, and no one from the show was aware of the cult status it reached there until 2008.

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