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TIL: Nike released a pair of shoes to commemorate St Patrick’s Day and named them ‘Black and Tans’. Unknowing to Nike the 'Black and Tans’ were a British paramilitary group that terrorised the Irish, Killing and injuring hundreds of people in Ireland during the 1920’s.

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