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TIL - Stephen King took one of his novels out of print – “Rage” about a boy who kills two teachers and takes his Algebra class hostage.

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DQ76J TIL Dorothy Thompson was a major celebrity in the 20th century, the "First Lady of American Journalism", equal in influence to Eleanor Roosevelt, and the first American journalist to be expelled by Nazi Germany
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