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TIL The Geneva Convention allows belligerents to take patients of hospital ships as prisoners of war, but not the staff

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M7RV8 TIL the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th US Presidents lived past 80 years old. The next 25 in a row died before reaching 80.
g6M8 TIL When Fidel Castro seized power of Cuba He banned the board game ‘Monopoly’ and ordered every set to be destroyed because He perceived it as the pure embodiment of capitalism
WkwDY TIL about The Streisand effect (named after Barbara Streisand)- a phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet.
xRJk TIL in 1964, the FBI spent 4 months investigating the song “Louie Louie” by The Kingsmen after receiving complaints about obscene lyrics. The investigation ended without persecution. Ironically, the word “Fuck” appears in the song, shouted by the drummer after he accidentally dropped his drumstick.
x6eZk TIL as recently as 2011, Dr Pepper ran an ad campaign with the slogan “Dr Pepper: IT’S NOT FOR WOMEN”. There was even a Facebook page that only men could access, where men would shoot at “girlie” things like flowers and rainbows.