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TIL that Rick Rescorla, the director of security at Morgan Stanley, saved the lives of nearly his whole company on 9/11 by making them evacuate the South Tower as soon as the North Tower was hit, which was against Port Authority orders

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D1ALj TIL that the hottest thing in the known universe is actually on Earth: the Large Hadron Collider can reach temperatures of 4 trillion Kelvin.
Lkwo0 TIL of Worker Policing. A brutal regulatory system in hives by which female workers will attach their queen and eat her sons if there are too many compared to their own sons, and sometimes will eat their own if the Queen's eggs are too few.
wWyE TIL that the Yellow Star imposed upon Jewish citizens in Nazi Germany was not a Nazi invention but originated in Medina under Islam in the 8th century
OGgpY TIL of Reginald Hamilton Earnshaw, believed to have been the youngest person in the British services to die in World War II at just 14 years old.
xpmB TIL a polio victim was kept alive in a metal tube for nearly 60 years only to die when a power outage shut her iron lung down.