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TIL the British Navy uses Britney Spears’ music to scare off Somali pirates

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LBlZ TIL some historians blame Atari for the Video Game Crash of 1983. Atari figured anything would sell, and even tried to produce a Rubik’s cube video game.
0w0Bv TIL that police in a district in India's Madhya Pradesh state have been paid extra to grow moustaches because their bosses believe it makes them command more respect.
Me01A TIL that Janeane Garofalo married writer Robert Cohen in 1991 as a joke, not realizing the marriage was legitimate for 21 years when Cohen tried to get marry someone else
vPmmR TIL that the Germans invaded Norway off of maps from a tourist guidebook. Hitler gave the commanding ground general less than eight hours to plan the invasion so the general picked up a guidebook at a nearby stationary store. Norway resisted for 61 days - the longest of any German defeated nation.
W7g1L TIL about Martha Mansfield, a silent film star who died at 24 in 1923 on the set of 'The Warrens of Virginia.' Her Civil War-era costume caught fire after someone threw a used match into the car she was sitting in. The match-thrower has never been identified.