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TIL In Spotted Hyena clans, it's females who lead the pack.

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Wk58d TIL of Ghulam Dastagir, a Stationmaster who refused to leave his post during the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, & prevented any trains from stopping at the station, saving thousands of lives even as his colleagues were dead and he himself spent 2 decades in and out of hospital due to long exposure to the Gas
Lkx0Q TIL that the "boy [who] stood on the burning deck" was Giocante Casabianca - a brave little boy on on board the burning L'Orient, who refused to leave his post without his father's orders. He didn't know that his father was already dead.
mxZwM TIL In-n-Out Burger Store managers make 160K a year
mxOAP TIL the 2008 financial crash directly led to 6566 suicides, causing more deaths than the September 11 attacks.
0E7v TIL minutes before the Halifax Explosion, (one of the largest non-nuclear, man-made explosions) a dispatcher named Vince Coleman returned to his station to send a warning telegram, saving 300 lives at the cost of his own.