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TIL That the City of Manchester gets it's name from the Celtic name 'Mamucium' which means breast shaped hill.

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KYYZa TIL in July of 2021 a British plane spotter noticed sparks coming off an F-15E Strike Eagle's engine after it took off from RAF Lakenheath. He called the base's switchboard to alert the base and the plane returned safely. The pilot publicly thanked him and gave him his insignia patch.
XELJX TIL Pluto didn't get to complete a single orbit around the sun until it was demoted to no longer being a planet. It was discovered on February 18, 1930 and takes 248.09 Earth years to go one time around the sun.
gJL4 TIL that Stephen King was recognised by an Old Lady in a store who criticised him for writing scary stories. Saying She preferred uplifting stories like The Shawshank Redemption. Completely unaware it was based on his short story.
p8aVQ TIL after a Japanese Destroyer rammed the ship Naval Lieutenant John F. Kennedy was on during WW2, Kennedy swam for 5 hours towards an island while towing one of his badly burned crewman by clasping a scrap of the crewman's lifejacket between his teeth despite sustaining a back injury from the crash
PR0w TIL JK Rowling’s first husband was a 23 year old student who claimed that he was the first to read Harry Potter. Their marriage fell apart less than a year later after he forced her out of the apartment with their baby daughter at 5 in the morning