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#116: Supplying the Facts

Answer to #115: Before they entered the bar, the baseball hat man told the cowboy hat man, "If I can spray water everywhere in the bar and make the bartender laugh, you have to give me ten thousand dollars."
(Dedicated to C217903)

I supply the facts, but you supply the thoughts. I am also used to describe realistic droughts. My inhabitants are abstract as their places, And I provide details of their words & faces. I hold details in a very complex form, I may cause your mind to conjure up a storm. I hold many different views from different eyes, My facts can be hard to find; as if in disguise. I may tell of facts, but it may be theories I contain, I can inform, persuade, and can even entertain. I tell of a little girl, and of men chasing a whale, and only through me can you find the answer to this tale. What am I? [Slide for answer]