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TIL that King Peter I of Serbia personally led the army to fight against the Central Powers during World War I

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dDDyK TIL the national sport in Anguilla is boat racing. This passion stemmed from the early 1900s where Anguillans sought employment on neighboring islands. The voyages home would turn into competitions of speed. (Reposted due to typo in title)
nevW7 TIL exponential, log and trig functions are examples of transcendental functions, which "transcend" algebra as they can't be expressed with a sequence of the algebraic operations of addition, multiplication and root extraction. Unlike algebraic functions, they can't satisfy polynomial equations.
QNVLd TIL Usain Bolts 200m record time also contains the second fastest 100m time.
v1NW8 TIL the Turkish Straits crisis was an opening salvo of the Cold War, as the Soviet Union tried to take over two key channels in order to control Black Sea naval traffic. Stalin threatened to invade Turkey from the Balkans, prompting the Truman Doctrine of capitalist aid that put the country in NATO
ned9P TIL The oldest recorded marriage in the USA is from 1565, between a Spaniard and a free black woman.