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TIL, Rolls Royce has an stained glass window commemorating the pilots of the RAF (Royal Air Force) who fought at the battle of Britain during WW2 in a factory in Osmaton, Derby (UK).

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WkbYL TIL of Julius Lothar Meyer who was a German chemist. He was one of the pioneers in developing the first periodic table of chemical elements. Both Mendeleev and Meyer worked with Robert Bunsen. He never used his first given name, and was known throughout his life simply as Lothar Meyer.
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