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TIL Coca Cola released a German advert celebrating the 75th anniversary of Fanta’s 1940 founding in Nazi Germany. Before it got pulled, it stated it wanted to “bring the feeling of the good old times back.”

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k5MB TIL The first Democrat governor of Wyoming wore a pair of shoes made of human skin to his inaugural ball.
J481 TIL a Nigerian man survived 3 days in an upside down tugboat at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. He was eventually found by body recovery divers.
wAj8 TIL Tokyo has a self-declared superhero who calls himself Mangetsu Man. He keeps his identity secret by wearing a purple bodysuit, with a big yellow smiley head; and his self-described job is to keep the city trash free.
OYG4 TIL that a chemistry professor at Dartmouth University died after a few drops of dimethylmercury touched her gloved hand.
5YK5n TIL there’s a real genetic disorder called Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis (CIPA) that causes symptomatic carriers to be unable to feel pain. They also can’t feel temperature or produce a sweat, causing 20% with the condition to die before age 3 due to overheating.