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TIL that the song whistled throughout The Great Escape has lyrics attributed to an Anglo-Irish propagandist named Toby O'Brien. "Hitler has only got one ball, Göring has two but very small, Himmler is rather sim'lar, But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all"

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