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TIL German soldiers can disobey orders if they consider them to be inhumane

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x6VP1 TIL An ad for Tango, a soft drink in the UK, which showed a topless orange man slapping people as a metaphor for tasting the drink, caused a craze where kids would slap each other and say "You've been Tango'd!" With one child suffering a perforated ear drum. The ad was withdrawn.
GZ1J TIL the song “Total Eclipse of the Heart” was originally written for a vampire musical.
m1JBM TIL that in 1994, a Washington State man’s death sentence was overturned because the Judge believed that the man’s weight could cause him to be decapitated by the scheduled hanging - deeming him “too obese to hang”
Qar6 TIL the dye in blue M&M’s repairs rats'spinal injuries when injected into them. It also turns them blue.
OoMWg TIL when world champion boxer Joe Louis voluntarily joined the U.S. Army in 1942 he was asked about his decision to enter the (then) racially segregated organisation, he replied: "Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them."