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TIL London has a Walking and cycling commissioner

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GAXE7 TIL that the 1997 movie Batman & Robin was about a (now canceled) sequel called Batman Unchained and was originally planned to have Courtney Love or Madonna to play Harley Quinn in her live-action debut.
dvrQ TIL that after being captured by the Parthians, the richest man in the Roman world was killed by having molten gold poured into his mouth.
XEb7X TIL Lightning you see in the sky is actually only about an inch wide appearing giant only because its so bright
ojyR TIL of the “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum”, a sixteenth century medieval atlas with artistic hand drawn eyewitness maps of major world cities. Organized and compiled in the year 1570, it utilized the talent and works of several cartographers. The first traditional “world atlas”, it contains 53 maps.
JY78V TIL: Britain only finally settled its World War II debts to the US and Canada in December 2006 making payments of $83.25m (£42.5m) to the US and US$22.7m (£11.6m) to Canada.bbb