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TIL that the state of Texas will permanently revoke teaching certificates and retirement benefits from any educator who goes on strike.

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BNlL TIL Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft all employ the same tax avoidance strategy.
LkbEV TIL of Perpetua, a 3rd century martyr, by attack of wild animals. In the midst of the attacks, she would fix her dress and her hair to preserve her dignity. She eventually died by guiding the sword of a shaky soldier to her own neck.
Bxmy TIL Michael Jackson’s father, talent mogul Joe Jackson, attempted to use the press conference marking his son’s death to promote his new hip hop recording project
neQ0G TIL, the Shibuya Crossing, located in the Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, is said to be the busiest pedestrian intersection in the world. At peak times, over 1000 people cross at the same time, coming from all directions, and there is almost no loss of foot traffic at midnight or early morning.
ADKK7 TIL that Helicopter money is a proposed unconventional monetary policy, sometimes suggested as an alternative to quantitative easing (QE) when the economy is in a liquidity trap (when interest rates near zero and the economy remains in recession)