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Revealed: The shocking origin of Australia's mysterious black balls

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Researchers from the University of New South Wales say the balls are actually a foul mixture of raw sewage, cooking fat, soap scum, and drugs.

The balls were initially thought to be a type of tar formed when leaking oil from a ship or off-shore rig mixed with cold water and debris.

This suggests that a sewage leak is the most likely source of the strange black balls.

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