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

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MeagK TIL New Orleans architectural historian Samuel Wilson, Jr. stated that the term "shotgun" house is a reference to the idea that if all the doors are opened, a shotgun blast fired into the house from the front doorway will fly cleanly to the other end and out at the back.
kJVPB TIL that NASA lost a $330m Mars Orbiter in 1999, immediately before mars orbit was achieved, because one of the contracted US companies used imperial units instead of metric.
YpmxP TIL The body of Mats Israelsson was preserved so well in vitriol in the Falun Mine that when his body was found 40 years after his death he looked like he had just died
ApN7 TIL that in during WWII, Cambridge professor Alfie Maddock was working late into the night, and spilled the UK’s entire supply of plutonium, 10mg, onto a wooden table. He cut a hole in the table, burned it, and managed to recover 9.5mg of it from the ashes.
R77b6 TIL A British Soldier Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart was a one-eyed, one-handed war hero who fought in both world wars, surviving plane crashes and PoW camps. He later said "frankly I had enjoyed the war."