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TIL that pepperoni is an American invention

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R77B6 Here’s a question for all you Game of Thrones fans: Have you ever seen Cersei Lannister and Ser Bronn in the same scene? Nope, never happened, and never will.
D1xAg TIL that Frank Sinatra did not serve in the military during WWII, classified as F4 (Registrant not acceptable for military service) because the US Army considered him "not acceptable material from a psychiatric viewpoint".
DwdD TIL of vinyl players that work by laser beams reading the grooves, leaving no deterioration to the vinyl.
d8LdZ TIL that in 1493, Christopher Columbus saw 'mermaids' and dexcribed them as 'not half as beautiful as they are painted' - they were actually manatees.
VMmrp TIL that muon imaging could help save the Great Dome of Florence, and might solve the secret of how the heck Brunelleschi built it in the first place