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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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wLpYo TIL Ashraf Marwan, son in law of former Egyptian President Gamal Nasser was referred to as 20th century greatest spy by Mossad.
woGYY TIL that NORTHERN Ireland is almost exactly the same size as Connecticut.
OG0N7 TIL that "Sleeping Beauty" was the nickname given to the corpse of Francys Arsentiev, the first American woman to summit Mount Everest without the aid of bottled oxygen. She died during the descent and her corpse was visible to climbers for 9 years until it was moved.
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