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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 The ad was withdrawn.

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QJ0jX TIL that a shogun of Japan named Tsunayoshi Tokugawa loved dogs so much that he set laws for dogs in place such as making it a capital crime for harming a dog and saved over 50,000 dogs from the streets, placing them in kennels begrudgingly funded by citizens of the capital city of Edo.
d8KrQ TIL the week of the Russian apartment bombings, 3 FSB agents were arrested for planting a live bomb in an apartment building. They were later released after the head of the FSB claimed it was an exercise.
loKO1 TIL A 2008 review of 11 studies found flossing was no more effective than brushing alone in reducing plaque or gingivitis. A 2011 review found "some evidence" from 12 studies, and "weak, very unreliable evidence from 10 studies" that it did. The US government stopped recommending flossing in 2015.
b9vZp TIL that Lisa Kudrow initially played Ursula Buffay in Mad About You and then was cast as Phoebe Buffay in Friends based on that performance, with the producers using it as an opportunity to set the two shows in the same universe.
loglN TIL There's a chain of cafés in The Netherlands called Brownies & Downies, where you are being served by people with Down syndrome.