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TIL A Utah teacher was fired for writing an educational blog about “homophones”

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MeKpA TIL Hall of Fame Pitcher Nolan Ryan played from 1966 until 1993. He was 19 when he debuted and 46 when he retired.
6EXZW TIL Charles Shultz included Franklin, a black child, in his Peanuts comic strip at the height of the civil rights movement. He has since been accused of racism, but that is entirely incorrect. Shultz threatened to quit if his strips with Franklin weren’t run as is.
R77r7 TIL There is an Indian village named "Piplantri", which celebrates the birth of every girl child. by planting 111 trees.
PYamE TIL that due to the way that the International Date Line is drawn, it will take 26 hours for every place on Earth to enter 2018.
o5DW TIL Texas uses elementary kids reading test scores to determine how many prisons and hospitals will be built in 10 years.