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TIL that football teams wearing red kits perform better than teams in any other colour

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l7BPN TIL that actor Nicolas Cage's stage name was inspired in part by the Marvel Superhero "Luke Cage". He decided to change it when people would keep quoting films of his uncle Francis Ford Coppola to him.
awoXy TIL of the USS Mason, the only WWII destroyer with an all-black enlisted crew
d8BmK TIL about exploding head syndrome, an event in which a person hallucinates a short and extremely loud noise as they are falling asleep. Despite the name, the syndrome isn’t associated to any dangerous condition.
jNBNj TIL that trees release so called monoterpenes to start the condensation of new clouds to help block the sun and cool themselves if it's too hot.
kRVE TIL the lyrics of the first original USSR anthem commissioned by Stalin, the lyrics of the second anthem (after De-Stalinization) and the lyrics of the current anthem of Russian Federation were all written by the same man, Sergey Mikhalkov (who was mostly a writer of children books and fables).