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

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j61QX TIL, that there are artificial islands on the coast of Los Angeles called the THUMS Island that are oil fields hidden in plain sight
YZ4W [TIL] Surya Bonaly is the ONLY figure skater who has ever landed a one-bladed skating backflip.
166mr TIL The only children to survive the Titanic without a parent were two brothers aged 2 and 4. Their father kidnapped them from his ex-wife and boarded the ship with a fake name. The father didn’t survive and for weeks the boys were known as the Titanic Orphans until their mother was found.
WEQL TIL that when you see something strange happening, but the software is telling you everything is fine, it’s called a “Mad Girlfriend Bug”
RJe1 TIL that the flaw that destroyed Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986 almost occurred on another mission a year earlier. One of the astronauts on the 1985 flight was told that “you came within three-tenths of one second of dying.”