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TIL there are wild wallabies in the UK

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Mjk7 TIL that Jacksonville, Fla., was the winter filming capital of the early US movie industry but conservative residents objected, a mayor was elected on anti-movie platform, and so the industry moved on to Southern California
MQ0 TIL there is a museum dedicated specifically to bad art.
wo8Do TIL that TON 618, 18.2 billion light years from Earth, is one of the largest black holes in the universe. The gas cloud that surrounds it has a diameter of at least 100 kiloparsecs(330,000 light-years), twice the size of the Milky Way.