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TIL: Teachers in the state of Texas are legally permitted to carry firearms in the classroom.

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7rN9X TIL Newt Gingrich has co-written multiple alternate history novels
ADDYn TIL an an American Indian woman left behind during an evacuation in 1835 lived alone on a remote island off the coast of California for 18 years, inspiring the children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."
M7Jm8 TIL Werner Herzog threatened to shoot Klaus Kinski—and then himself—on the set of Aguirre, the Wrath of God to prevent Kinski from walking off the job.
k7Ge TIL that Sapphires and Rubies are the same stone in different colors.
YpBWr TIL about Grain Entrapment. Large quantities of grain stored in places like silos will suddenly shift and may trap people caught in their motion. In 2010 alone this resulted in 26 deaths in American farms.