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Want to see what the locals are up to? Pick up a copy of our area papers Dalby Herald

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The Western Star

3 Balonne Beacon Every Friday

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Meet Biggsy and Tiny! Let Biggsy the truck driver and her best mate Tiny show you around. She’s a feisty, independent woman making her way in what used to be a man’s world and Tiny is a big, burly shovel operator with a sensitive side. Check out each month as their story unfolds against a backdrop of huge machines and enormous holes in the ground. Comic written and drawn by Ad Long

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Australia is the sixth largest country behind Russia, Canada, China, USA, and Brazil.

The fortune cookie was invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodle maker.

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a four-foot-tall child inside.

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Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day.

Despite the month implied by its name, Munich's annual 16-day Oktoberfest actually begins in mid-September and ends on the first Sunday in October.

An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavour are caused by their smell.

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Chinchilla News

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10 useless facts you will never need. Unless you need to win a workplace argument or a pub trivia competition, that is.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

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Most toilets flush in E-flat.

You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

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