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TIL London has a Walking and cycling commissioner

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7VQL TIL There’s an Asteroid in the Asteroid Belt Named After Wikipedia
6AlW TIL a Doctor’s tie can transmit sickness between patients because ties hardly ever get washed
L4Om TIL that there is a scientific measurement for the ‘risk of death’ of any action: the micromort. If an activity is rated as one micromort, you would have a one in a million chance of dying while doing it. Running a marathon is ~7 micromorts, sky diving 10, and climbing Mount Everest 40,000!
Dpne TIL That Dave Canturbury from “Dual Survival” was fired from the program for lying about his military background and survival training.
OopR6 TIL the largest industrial disaster in history occurred in 1975 during the cultural revolution in China. The Banqiao Dam collapsed during a typhoon which is estimated to have killed hundreds of thousands. The CCP covered up this disaster for almost 20 years.