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TIL There is an actual city in Australia called Townsville. Can't wait to meet Professor Utonium!

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NXYQQ TIL in 1998 ASEAN Championship, both Indonesia and Thailand wanted to deliberately lose their match so that they finish 2nd in their group and face "weaker" Singapore in the Semi-Final. Ironically, both of them got eliminated in the Semi-Finals and Singapore won the whole thing in the end.
rRdLw TIL that former major league pitcher Randy Johnson is now a professional photographer. The logo of his company is a tribute to the bird he hit while pitching in 2001.
GAym5 TIL Type O Negative's title song "Bloody Kisses", about a woman who committed suicide, it’s a veiled tribute to Peter Steele's 17-year-old cat Venus: "No one wants to hear about a guy who's 6' 8" with long black hair and fangs crying about his f**kin' cat, so I had to make it extremely metaphoric."
R7am8 TIL Stanley Kubrick was supposed to give Malcolm McDowell 2.5% of the profit from A Clockwork Orange, but never told McDowell about the arrangement and never gave him the money.
N7Ol8 TIL that a zookeeper secretly grew a cannabis plantation inside the rhino enclosure at an Austrian zoo for years. He was the only one who had access to the enclosure and police made the discovery after a tip from a drug user.