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TIL An impoverished Turkish city named "Batman" planned to sue Warner Bros and and Christopher Nolan in 2008 for using the city's name without permission saying that “there is only one Batman in the world”.

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J1jWk TIL after English King James II converted to Catholicism he was forced into exile in 1688 and his descendants were barred from royal succession. Today there is an art historian in Germany who would be King of England (instead of King Charles III) if James had stayed in the Church of England.
d8Nk7 TIL: When Satruday Night Live alum Dana Carvey was hospitalized for an angioplasty in 1998, legendary crooner Frank Sinatra died in the room next to his.
ORN6 TIL the world population will surpass 7.5 billion people in about 15 minutes
RyE4 TIL the tallest known mountain in the solar system is on an asteroid.
wLlQ8 TIL there's a fearsome creature in North American mythology that's basically a little puppy in the shape of an axe, and it hops about from camp to camp to eat the axehandles belonging inattentive lumberjacks