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TIL London has a Walking and cycling commissioner

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Gk9Q TIL That the main reason the U.S. did not drop the atomic bomb on Kyoto is that Secretary of War Henry Stimson wanted to preserve the cultural center where he had spent his honeymoon.
xBQ0 TIL in 1991 a billionaire in Alabama had a bunch of life sized dinosaurs built and placed randomly in a 10,000 acre wooded area around his home.
GYdE5 TIL that in 1997 the former president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial
4XR7X TIL Golden Poison Frog,one of the most toxic animals on Earth, can kill 10 adult humans with just 1mg of it's Poison. Interestingly Golden Poison frogs raised in captivity and isolated from insects in their native habitat never develop venom.
R5DJ7 TIL the U.S. Navy used side paddle wheel aircraft carriers during WWII.