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TIL London has a Walking and cycling commissioner

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Y7GjA TIL the Earth's radius is about 21km (13mi) smaller at the poles compared to the equator.
D1GgJ TIL about Henry Tandey, the most highly decorated British private of World World I, who also became famous for supposedly not killing Adolf Hitler, then a German soldier, when he encountered him in Marcoing, France. However, Tandey's biographer and others believe the story is an urban legend.
VG6Q TIL that Mark Hamill is the same age today (63) as Sir Alec Guiness was when Star Wars was released in 1977.
Xpe6 TIL German immigrants in early America tried to establish Socialist Utopian communities…all failed and resulted in famine and financial collapse. Notable residents included Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
8g44 TIL deuterium, one of the ingredients of nuclear fusion, is readily found in seawater, and “viewed as a potential fuel for a fusion reactor, a gallon of seawater could produce as much energy as 300 gallons of gasoline.”