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...that at age 16, Billy Slater (pictured) was working in Sydney as a roustabout for the racehorse trainer, Gai Waterhouse?
...that the 283 metre high Vision Brisbane skyscraper was put on hold and then cancelled due to the late-2000s financial crisis?
...that the name for The Veronicas came from a character in the movie Heathers played by Winona Ryder?
...that despite inhabiting the Whitsunday Islands and coastal regions of Queensland from at least 7000 BC until 1870, there is no archaeological evidence of the Ngaro people?

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