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TIL: There is a book called “Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero” written by a neuroscientist, which covers in detail how much an ordinary person would need to train and adapt to become Batman.

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x6AjD TIL that in 1973, Canadian Rosella Bjornson became the first female commercial airline pilot in North America.
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