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TIL 38 people have been killed and several injured due to opposition to Rushdie's "Satanic Verses"

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nWwQd TIL the American Actor Jake Gyllenhaal descends from the Gyllenhaal Family, a Swedish noble family which was established in 1652.
8egjG TIL that in Telangana, India, a government school remains open to serve just one student—a young girl who attends classes all by herself.
VM59Z TIL about Operation Hidden Mitten, a US law enforcement operation with the main purpose of keeping mitten crabs out of the country. This species of crab is extremely invasive, preys on local wildlife and carry parasites that affect human lungs.
X6jP TIL German writer Ernst Jünger ran away at the age of 18, served both WW1 and WW2, earned the iron cross, hung out with Picasso and Cocteau, hated the nazis and did lots of drugs until he died 102 years old.
ydvJ TIL Katharine Lee Bates, author of ‘America the Beautiful’ was a lesbian who left the Republican party in 1924 over its growing xenophobia