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TIL: the federation process that saw the creation of the nation of Australia originally involved Fiji and New Zealand. they chose not to join.

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XwmP TIL that had Batman & Robin been successful, WB had already planned a fifth film, which would have been titled Batman Triumphant. Directed by Joel Schumacher, it was to feature Scarecrow and Harley Quinn as its villains, with a possible hallucinatory appearance by Jack Nicholson as the Joker.
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