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TIL that pepperoni is an American invention

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VMZmm TIL that Pamelyn Ferdin, the child actress who voiced Fern in Charlotte's Web (1973), became an animal right's activist as an adult, echoing the convictions of Fern
v18ZB TIL that along with the well known electronic surveillance state, there is also a deeply disturbing DNA surveillance state.
b9Ey0 TIL that the worlds shortest world leader was President Benito Juárez of Mexico at only 4 feet 6 inches (1.37 meters) and the tallest was Maharana Pratap, King of Mewar in present day Rajasthan (a state in India), at 7 feet 5 inches (2.2 meters)
OovJ7 TIL that in 1758, Carl Linnaeus, in his book Systema Naturæ, divided humans into five "subspecies:" the white, sanguine, and powerful Europeans; the yellow, melancholy, and severe Asians; the red, choleric, and stubborn Americans; the black, stony, and lax Africans; and the "wild, monstrous" others.
KY6Aa TIL American Billionaire Andrew Carnegie Offered To Buy The Philippines’ Freedom from US Colonization For $20 Million