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TIL that there is a lake in Australia named "Lake Disappointment". It was named this because the discoverer, Frank Hann, followed an inland flowing creek expecting to find a large freshwater lake, only to find a dried up lake bed because the lake is typically dry. So he named it "Disappointment"

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