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

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wLWw8 TIL that almost 1/3 of all the morphine in the world is derived in a city in Turkey called "Afyon" which literally means Opium.
QmjL TIL that in 1942, hundreds of skeletons were found in a Himalayan lake. Studies determined it to be the King of Kanauj and his entourage who had been struck by a massive hailstorm in the 9th century.
JYR6k TIL one of the selling points for introducing the guillotine during the French Revolution was equality - commoners could now enjoy the comparatively quick and painless death of decapitation just like the nobility, and would no longer have to endure brutal deaths such as those caused by hanging.
N7rv6 TIL people aren't 'left brain' or 'right brain', and the best seller 'Drawing on the right side of the brain' has absolutely no basis in neuroscience.
GAPRE TIL: In the 15th century, an engineer named Orban offered to build a huge cannon for Constantinople. After they turned him down, he offered his services to the Ottomans who then used his cannon to attack Constantinople.