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TIL the first pizza delivered in space was in 2001 by Pizza Hut

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GAGvN TIL that in Rosario, Argentina, the home city of Lionel Messi, people are banned from naming their children ‘Messi’
L10d TIL As a child, Stephen Colbert suppressed his Southern accent to avoid the stereotypes of Southerners he saw on TV. He practiced by trying to imitate news anchors.
bma9 TIL that, for unclear reasons, engineers and engineering students have a significantly above-average likelihood to engage in terrorist activity
kOWG7 TIL about The Carrington Event, the most powerful solar flare recorded. If this were to happen today, the impact on power grids, telecommunications, internet, crops, satellite communications and GPS systems would be $1 trillion to $2 trillion.
M7oO8 Today I learned that in 1994, a plane was flying from Moscow to Hong Kong when the pilot's children got into the cockpit and accidentally turned off the autopilot. This resulted in a plane crash that killed all 75 people on the plane.