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TIL Serbia’s capital has been razed and rebuilt more than 40 times.

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1ajEW TIL An Elephant’s penis is prehensile. It can be used as a tripod for stability when standing on two legs, swat away flies, and scratch itches on their stomach.
9j7m TIL that 90% of Australia is not actually a desert. The actual number is 35%
4kMrX TIL: Combination weapons such as a Gun-Axe, Mace-Pistol, or Pistol-Falchion were real and date back hundreds of years. In the 1500s -1800s since guns only fired one shot, they attached them to various weapons such as the German Axe-Pistol. In some cases they attached a gun to a shield.
5YdJP TIL polar bears' liver have a vitamin A content so high, its considered poisonous. When hunting them, the livers are buried or burned to prevent the hunter's dogs from eating them.
b9Roj TIL that the taxonomic name for the endangered western lowland gorilla is Gorilla gorilla gorilla