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TIL that in 2004, CEO of Ryanair Michael O'Leary purchased a taxi license plate for his Mercedes-Benz under the name O'Leary Cabs, enabling it to be classified as a taxi so that he could legally make use of Dublin's bus lanes to speed up his car journeys.

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