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TIL Pizza Hut delivered to the International Space Station. In 2001, they paid Russia $1 million dollars to transport the pizza into space.

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X7k8 TIL that while writing for SNL, Larry David quit mid season, only to come back a few days later as if nothing happened, inspiring the plot for a Seinfeld episode.
N74gQ TIL that US forces bombarded North Korea so thoroughly during the Korean War that by the end of the war crews had to jettison their payload at sea because they had run out of things to bomb.
vPKMx TIL that Rwanda is ranked as Africa's 3rd least corrupt country, and is ranked higher than more developed countries like China, Romania, Argentina, and Hungary
oBOWo TIL in the late 90s Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz and Maybach, was working on a 12-litre 24-cylinder engine for Maybach cars, which would have made around 800 hp and 1200 Nm (885 lb-ft) of torque.
BraVb TIL in 1970 a 24-year-old doctorate student in computer planning filed suit seeking to void the Vietnam draft lottery on the grounds that the selection process did not produce truly random results, resulting in birth dates later in the year being drawn disproportionately early, and vice versa.