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TIL about Boston Brahmins - upper class English colonists who saw themselves as the social equivalent of Brahmins in the Indian caste system

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PYa0J TIL that in 2004 more than 300 people died and 500 injured in a supermarket fire because all the doors were deliberately closed under the direction of the owners in order to prevent people from fleeing with merchandise without paying for it.
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