These Vintage Ads Would Instantly Be Banned Today

Don't Shoot Santa

Because nothing says "happy holidays" like a bunch of children holding rifles. Why does a seven-year-old need a gun? No, really.

Too Soon

How soon is too soon to feed your baby soda? I'd like to see what "essential sugars" are provided by a bottle of cola. Active lifestyle? Yeah, maybe from the sugar high...

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  • The CIA reads up to 5 million Tweets a day.
  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
  • Four times more people speak English as a second language than as a native one.
  • It's a tradition in Ireland that if you donated a pint of blood, they give you a pint of Guinness to replace the iron.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.