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TIL that in 1972 Scottish professional football club Dundee United played a series of friendly games in Nigeria in which they only managed to win one of them. The club's performances shocked the locals so much that "Dundee United" or just "Dundee" is now used as slang to mean "idiot" in Nigeria

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