On This Day in Music History – October 11, 1967 The Bee Gees soared to the top of the UK charts with their very first #1 hit, “Massachusetts.” The haunting ballad, written by Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb, would go on to sell over five million copies worldwide and become one of the group’s early masterpieces. Interestingly, Robin Gibb later admitted that none of the brothers had ever even been to Massachusetts when they wrote it—they just liked how the name sounded. The song’s wistful melody an

Seventeen seventy five, Lexington, Massachusetts. At dawn, local farmers with muskets face off against the British army. No one knows who fires first, but that single shot echoes across the colonies, and across history. The Battle of Lexington becomes known as “the shot heard ’round the world,” marking the beginning of the American Revolution. 🇺🇸🔥 #Lexington #AmericanRevolution #HistoryTok #HiddenStories #DidYouKnow #FunFacts | Pyramid Secrets

This is why batteries don’t belong in the bin 🔋 🙅‍ Recently, one of our contracted garbage trucks caught fire in Northbridge, due to a lithium battery smouldering and igniting contents the truck was carrying. The truck was redirected to Tunks Park, where the driver successfully extinguished the fire before emergency services arrived. The truck was then safely returned to the Council Waste depot in Artarmon for further inspections. We’re please to report that in this case there were no injuries