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TIL The number one soft drink in Scotland isn’t Coke or Pepsi, its Irn-Bru. A company known for controversial ads, such as a mother singing about how she used to be a man, and another ad where a woman says she’d never gotten so much pleasure from 4 and a half inches before.

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