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TIL The death toll of the Halifax explosion would have been significantly higher if not for a lone railway dispatcher. The railyard had evacuated after being warned of the impending explosion, but one man ran back to telegraph halt orders to all inbound trains for Halifax, saving hundreds of lives.

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7rQ87 TIL: Nazi Germany was planning to relocate all Jews to Madagascar. The plan was put on hold in 1940 after the Germans failed to defeat the British in the Battle of Britain (partly because they expected the British to surrender and use their navy in the evacuation), then later changed it to genocide.
wL4wY TIL the term "Byzantine Empire" only came about a century after the Empire had fallen; the Byzantines called themselves Romans, and others called them Greeks
b6gEE TIL: Ternary computers use trits instead of bits and they are cheaper to manufacture and operate than binary computers.
OnVa TIL the Navajo have words for four genders: male, female, feminine-male, masculine-female.
Me4xB TIL humans are the only ones among all primates with chins