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TIL that Great Britain is “Great” because Brittany is “Lesser Britain”

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e0Kx5 TIL Chris Morris, from the IT Crowd, has been fired from many jobs due to the many pranks he has pulled during his radio career, including filling one of the radio booths with helium, causing the newsreader to report the news in an extremely high-pitched voice.
GY9ZE TIL that D.D. Palmer, the creator of chiropractic medicine, claimed to have received his ideas on chiropractic from "the other world" and considered declaring chiropractic to be a religion.
e0YQ5 TIL in 1974, drinkers in a British pub were bemoaning the fact that the UK didn't produce world champions, so they invented a sport that no one else knew about: toe wrestling. In 1976, a Canadian visitor competed and won, so with the point of the sport gone, the "World Championship" was discontinued
nWk5G TIL Indian Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, the first Indian, first Non-European to receive the Nobel prize in Literature (1913), was the only person to write national anthems of two countries- India & Bangladesh. Even Sri Lanka's national anthem was inspired by his work.
69LLm TIL: The 3x platinum hit "Man in the Mirror" is one of two songs not written by Michael Jackson from Jackson's seventh solo album "Bad".