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TIL The Lac Megantic train was left unattended overnight on the main track with a running, damaged engine, and none of that is illegal, or even largely abnormal.

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ZGjD TIL a study by British sociologists found 7 distinct social classes: Elite, Established middle class, Traditional working class, Technical middle class, Emergent service workers, New affluent workers and Precariat. Whom people know and what they do contribute to their class as much as income.
OrB6 TIL of Rena Kanokogi, a judo practitioner who, disguised as a man, won a gold medal at the 1959 YMCA judo tournament only to have to return it upon the revelation of her gender. 50 years later, she finally got the medal back.
AnAB TIL of Jonathan Daniels, a white Episcopal priest who was killed in 1965 after he threw himself in front of a shotgun blast targeting a seventeen-year-old black girl. Both he and the girl had been peacefully protesting for civil rights when they were attacked by a deputy.
8ewOP TIL Calvin Klein's "Obsession for Men" cologne was experimentally used to attempt to catch a tigress turned man-eater because of a specific pheromone it contains.
PYmVw TIL about the Irukandji jellyfish, a small and venomous jellyfish, that lives off the Australian coast. A sting, which initially feels like a mosquito bite, escalates to "Irukandji Syndrome", causing pain, cramping, headaches, vomiting, anxiety, and an impending sense of doom.