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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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kEWe TIL before Vermont became a state they tried to become part of Quebec, but Quebec refused so Vermont joined the United States instead.
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a6DJ TIL Hitler so admired the Greek resistance to the invading German army, that he ordered the release of all Greek POWs for “their gallant bearing”
68rX TIL In 2002 George Harrison knocked Aaliyah off the top spot in the UK singles chart, the first time that one deceased artist had replaced another at number one.
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