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TIL West Virginia Pepperoni Rolls Were Invented as Simple and Filling Food for Coal Miners.

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yQkwv TIL when Will Smith was 12, his grandma found his profanity-laced notebook and wrote, "Dear Will, truly intelligent people don't have to use words like this to express themselves. Please show the world that you're as smart as we think you are," on the back -- inspiring him to be a "clean" rapper.
yDPJ TIL the last person to win a presidential nomination with no political experience was Wendell Lewis Willkie. He lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt by 10%
rVVx TIL at 78, Sam Whittemore was the oldest colonial soldier in the American Rev War. He ambushed a British unit killing 1 by musket &2 by pistol. He was shot in the face, bayoneted &left for dead in a pool of blood. Colonials found him alive,trying to reload. Despite a grim Dr diagnosis he lived to 96
Bg7QL TIL that gooning is a form of legal kidnapping in the US where a parent can hire someone to kidnap a kid they think is troubled at night to bring them to boarding school or behavior modification facility.
R7nbQ TIL the original writer and singer of the the lion sleeps tonight was only paid the equivalent of 2 US dollars but surprisingly his heirs were able to fight for justice using a 1940's British law.