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TIL a suburb of Sydney, Australia installed loudspeakers at a “trouble spot” in a car park to drive away the hooligans by playing Barry Manilow songs.

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B6Nr TIL that in 2002, the candidates for the election of Warsaw’s mayor were each given the same save of SimCity 3000. The map resembled Warsaw, had 32.7k citizens, and they got 60k simoleons. The competition was won by Lech Kaczynski who won the elections afterwards. He soon became President of Poland.
woVoM TIL that a trio of drunken boys decided to sail out to sea looking for a girl they saw at a sports competition event. They ended up sailing for more than seven weeks and drifted 1300 km off course before being rescued by a tuna boat. They all survived by drinking beer, eating coconuts and a bird.
Mv5B TIL the US Navy’s most secretive naval base is located in a remote lake in northern Idaho. This base is believed to be used to develop stealth submarine technology and some locals believe that there is an underground waterway to the Pacific ocean used for top secret deployment
Zanv TIL that in 1879 cats were used to deliver mail in Belgium. It was unsuccessful.
epV4L Today I learned that Heinz invented the word “Ketchup” ~100 years ago; before, it was called “Catsup”