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TIL that there is an actual city of Townsville in Australia.

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e0ZKk TIL Portugal produces more than 50% of the world's cork supply.
99VB TIL that to attract jaguars to camera traps, field biologists have used the cologne ‘Calvin Klein’s Obssession for Men’. It is believed that the civetone in the cologne resembles a territorial marking.
YppoG Velvet worms can shoot strings of goo Spiderman-like from their mouths to entangle their prey.
jk0v TIL that in the 19. century men used to wear detachable stiff collars. They were dubbed ‘father killers’ as they could cut off the blood supply to the carotid artery, causing the wearer to suffocate.
AD0md TIL Kodak discovered the US was testing atomic bombs because the corn husks used for packing material were fogging film because they had been exposed to radiation.