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TIL that Oslo city council decided to forbid cars from entering the city by 2019

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Yp6pB TIL that with lifestyle variables eliminated, men's life expectancy is only a year less than women's.
e0vXn TIL about Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem, who agreed to annul her marriage to Guy de Lusignan to appease the High Court, on the condition that she have free rein to choose her next husband after her coronation. Upon being crowned queen, Sibylla immediately announced that she chose Guy as her husband.
QNP9p TIL about Seven Magic Mountains, a large-scale desert artwork in Nevada. Created by the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, it consists of seven fluorescently-painted totems of large, car-size stones stacked 32 feet (9.8 m) high.
6Eb8Z TIL about Gordon, or "Whipped Peter", an enslaved African American. The pictures of his scourged back provided Northerners with visual evidence of brutal treatment of slaves. Abolitionists distributed the pictures throughout the United States and internationally to show the abuses of slavery.
W7ejL TIL About Silas Soule, a Little-Known Union Officer and Abolitionist Who Died Aged 26 for Testifying About the Massacre at Sand Creek