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TIL there are sand dunes on Kurnell Peninsula close to Sydney. They have been used as filming locations in several movies, including 40000 Horsemen and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

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mxQjx TIL that due to a series of clergical clerical errors, there has never been a Pope John XX, even though there have been 21 legitimate popes who took the name John (the 21st of which was Pope John XXIII)
0dR5p TIL Thomas L. Jennings invented dry cleaning and was the first African-American patent holder in history when it was granted in 1821. He then invested his earnings into the Abolitionist movement.
VMwk0 TIL of an infamous bear in 1915 that killed and ate seven people over the period of a few days in a Japanese village, and that in the aftermath of the attacks (and hunting the bear) the village was completely abandoned.
dD8ej TIL in the 70's and 80's, dead acidic lakes were fairly common in the US, Europe and Canada because of acid rain. The acidity in lakes killed all microbes and aquatic life, resulting in crystal clear water that allowed the lake bottom to be visible.
nQe9 TIL in 2004, a welder demolished several buildings in his town with his own modified bulldozer to fight against a zoning dispute