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

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P4nV TIL Researchers at Yale did a study on teaching monkeys to use money to buy things like grapes, jello and other things. It turns out once the monkeys learned they could buy things with the money they started paying females monkeys for sex, who in turn immediately bought some sweets with it.
4X6b6 TIL that Breakfast is NOT the most important meal of the day. That belief was started by Kellogg's Cereal company to sell their product.
4X1aw TIL about Andy Hartley Payne, who was the winner of the International Trans-Continental Footrace in 1928 to promote U.S. Route 66. He ran the 3,423.5 mi route from Los Angeles to New York City, much of it along U.S. Route 66, in 573 hours, 4 minutes, 34 seconds over an 84-day staged run.
l7Kmr TIL the current world record for longest throw of a baseball was set by Canadian Glen Gorbous in 1957. He threw a baseball nearly 446 feet, from the right field corner to the left field corner.
RJG9 TIL that the highest paid CEO in the U.S. was John Hammergren of McKesson Corp in 2011, in excess of $700 million. At a company annual meeting in 2013, an employee asked for wages increases and was fired 4 months later.