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TIL actress Gloria Stuart who is most famous for her portrayal of “Old Rose” in the 1997 movie Titanic, was expelled from grade school for kicking her teacher. She later said, “to be honest, she deserved it". Stuart died in 2010. She was 100 years old.

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