Example of a non square-integrable martingale?

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Are there (simple) examples of martingales which aren't square integrable?

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$$ X_{n+1} = X_n + T_{n+1} $$ where $T_{n+1}$ is independent of $X_1,\ldots,X_n$ and $$ \Pr(T_{n+1}\in A) = \int_A \frac{dt}{(2+t^2)^{3/2}} $$ for every measurable set $A$. (Thus $T_{n+1}$ has a t-distribution with $2$ degrees of freedom.)