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TIL that pepperoni is an American invention

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gMQG8 TIL that 7-foot tall American boys have a 17% chance to play in NBA
XEjY6 TIL that it's very hard to get dizzy on the International Space Station even after spinning a lot because the astronauts' vestibular (allegedly) shuts down in the first 24-48 hours of being there.
VB4N8 TIL that in the Sundarbans mangrove swamps of Bangladesh and India, tigers kill up to fifty people a year, and the widows of men killed by tigers face cultural and religious ostracization, and are viewed as bad omens. Many are excluded from society to the point of having their children taken away.
BgJbx TIL Acadia (AD-42) was a Yellowstone class destroyer in the the United States Navy. She was the first ship to have a wartime mixed-sex crew and was nicknamed "The Love Boat" in the Persian Gulf War after 10% of its crew became pregnant during deployment.
yQGDl TIL that Martha MacIsaac (Becca in Superbad) and Emma Stone became best friends while shooting Superbad to the point they lived together for years after filming ended