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TIL that there's an annual soccer competition, called the Muratti Vase, inaugurated in 1905, between teams representing the Channel Islands of Alderney, Guernsey and Jersey. Jersey won it 57 times, Guernsey 46 times and Alderney just once in 1920 and hasn't been to a final in almost 90 years

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