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TIL that King Henry VIII owned the first pair of football boots.

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4kg7R 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.
R5D87 TIL that facial recognition on an iPhone probably doesn’t work on dead people.
69E8W TIL that in April of 1861, Former President Franklin Pierce wrote to the other living former presidents and asked them to consider meeting to use their stature and influence to propose a negotiated end to the war. However, this idea was ultimately never acted on.
VlO8 TIL Jeremy Clarkson’s mom invented the Paddington Bear stuffed toy
9wWDG TIL that cigarette filters were designed with color-changing chemicals to give the illusion that they filter out toxins. In reality, the filters have little to no health benefits.