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TIL that the Iran women’s national soccer team fielded up to 8 men in 2015.

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KOem4 TIL Vladimir Lenin's personal car at the time of his death was a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost that he had converted into a half-track.
LQ1Rr TIL Dachshund (sausage dogs) were specifically bred to hunt European badgers and spent hours underground, facing the badger straight on and dragging it out by the face.
p8REO TIL of a 12-year-old boy named Santos Rodriguez who on July 24, 1973 was killed in Dallas by a police officer, Darrell Cain, while being interrogated with his brother about "theft of change from a soda machine". Cain was conducting Russian roulette on the brothers to force a confession from them.
neRwY TIL JFK asked his mother not to contact heads of state without asking first after she asked Nikita Khrushchev to send her his autograph
DQLLY TIL German composer Richard Strauss completed roughly 140 compositions between the ages of 6 and 16, including almost 60 songs & more than 40 piano works.