Template talk:Serbia portal/Did you know
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These are texts which should be rotated through this section with rate of, say, one per week (in the section, add new one on the top and remove one from the bottom, and here mark current texts by horizontal lines). You are encouraged to add interesting facts here:
...that famous writer John Ronald Reuel Tolkien tried to learn Serbian language but failed?
...the actress and model Milla Jovovich has origin from Serb tribe of Vasojevići?
...Belgrade was under some form of attack every 37 years on average since AD 1?
...the Avala TV Tower is the third tallest building ever destroyed, after World Trade Center One and Two?
...the mother of the last (Eastern) Roman Emperor Constantine XI Paleologos Dragases was Serbian princess Helena Dragash (Jelena Dragaš), and he liked to be known by her Serbian surname of Dragash?
...according to the National Enquirer, author Ian Fleming patterned James Bond after Dusko Popov, a Serbian double agent nicknamed Tricycle?
...Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed Slavonic March (Marche Slavée) in 1876 known at first as the “Serbo-Russian March” based on Serbian folk melody “Come, my Dearest, why So Sad this Morning?”
