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TIL An ad for Tango, a soft drink in the UK, which showed a topless orange man slapping people as a metaphor for tasting the drink, caused a craze where kids would slap each other and say "You've been Tango'd!" With one child suffering a perforated ear drum. The ad was withdrawn.

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yQ85a TIL in 1140, a German King captured a castle and ordered all the women of the castle to leave with whatever they could carry on their backs. Thinking quickly, the women carried their men on their backs. The King kept his word and let the men live.
wngo TIL Even though oranges had been around in the UK since the 1300’s, the colour word “orange” wasn’t introduced until the 1540’s. Before then all orange coloured things were deemed to be red. Which is why the robin has a red breast, even though it’s clearly orange.
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