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

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PYmbE TIL that women who start trying to have kids at age 30 have an infertility rate 2-3 times higher that those who start at age 20.
YG4r TIL that during the Cannes Film Festival screening of the disturbing French film Irréversible, over 200 audience members walked out in disgust, and several reportedly required medical attention; those that stayed gave the film a 5-minute standing ovation.
xVBv1 TIL of the Battle of Cable Street, with saw protesters confront Met police and Blackshirts from the BUF at a fascist march in 1936. A commemorative plaque about the incident reads "They Shall Not Pass".
GY0RE TIL that Heather Graham was seriously considering doing softcore porn before being cast in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me!
6BrJ TIL that in 2012 a wearable computing pioneer was attacked by McDonalds employees for refusing to remove his (permanently attached) digital eyeglasses