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TIL Texas has at least 200 ghost-towns

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wLKQW TIL of the Taman Shud Case; a mysterious stranger was seen behaving strangely in a small Australian town in 1948. The next day his dead body was found holding a scrap of paper with a mysterious code on it - to this day he remains unidentified.
KOYVJ TIL Nvidia is developing self-driving car systems
N7xBN TIL the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) is the largest canid of South America. It is neither a fox nor a wolf. It is the only species in the genus Chrysocyon which literally means "golden dog", and it communicates mainly by scent markings and a kind of "roar-barking." Its urine smells like weed.
WkvnA TIL that the Great Falls of the Potomac northwest of Washington, DC is the steepest falls in the eastern US and are along the Atlantic Fall Line of the Appalachian Mountains, dropping 76 feet in under 1 mile.
WeQo TIL the fattest country in the world isn’t the USA… it’s Kuwait. The second is Saudi Arabia, with 72% of those over 40 classified as “clinically obese”.