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TIL Pizza Hut was the first pizza delivery service to offer online ordering… In 1994

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10VW TIL: Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail single-handedly around the world, never learned to swim and considered it “useless”
l7nl7 TIL that there are 31.7 million small businesses in the US and 81% of them have no employees and are considered to be "nonemployers".
vLXR TIL Canada is so big that Cape Spear, Newfoundland is closer to London than to Vancouver.
oRNpK TIL the smallest house in Great Britain was once owned by a man called Robert Jones who rented it to a man called Robert Jones.
9baG TIL that the word “Peruse” actually means the opposite of how it’s casually used. It means “to read or examine thoroughly.”