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TIL in 2005, Pizza Hut partnered with EverQuest II, an MMORPG, to add a /pizza command so players could order pizza without having to log out.

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eZLL TIL that there exists a chemical compound so volatile that it will set fire to literally everything. Except candle wax.
4kLo TIL the founder of Subway started it to try to pay for his tuition fees through Med School
9Ym8D TIL that 75% of exterior fire escapes in New York City do not meet safety standards and are all at least 50 years old
Z80Y TIL in the early 1900s, a 5 foot tall man single handedly scuplted and moved many stone blocks that weighed several tons. He never revealed his method and said he knew how the Pyramids were built. His name was Edward Leedskalnin.
ANKen TIL William James Sidis, a man to have been deemed the smartest person to have ever lived with an IQ of 250-300, died at the age of 46 due to none other than a brain hemorrhage.