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TIL the San Marino national football team have played over 120 competative matches in their history and won 0 of them

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NGr1 TIL that Iran has an import ban on 75 so-called western luxury products, including toilet paper. The result is a huge black market in smuggled loo roll.
4k1rb TIL that not only did Leonardo da Vinci write with a special kind of shorthand that he invented himself, he also mirrored his writing, starting at the right side of the page and moving to the left. Only when he was writing something intended for other people did he write in the normal direction.
xV7j5 TIL of William Walker, an American who wanted to add more slave states from Latin America. He invaded Mexico, failed after a year, invaded Nicaragua, surrendered to the US Navy after a year, tried to invade Nicaragua again, was arrested, then tried to invade Honduras and was finally executed.
J571 TIL Author Joe Hill was so determined to keep it a secret that he was Stephen King’s son, his own agent didn’t know for 10 years.
yQl4l TIL: Ireland has 0.0006% of the worlds population but supplies 37.8% of global blood exports. This is due to a higher than average amount O blood types.