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TIL that pizza was invented in Naples, Italy as an inexpensive food to be consumed quickly. It remained unknown outside of Naples until Italian immigrants brought it to the US in the early 20th Century, where it would take the country by storm after WW2.

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JYlgV TIL that Touch the Clouds was a Chief of the Lakota Indian Tribe. He was a friend of Crazy Horse. Fought in The Battle of Little Bighorn. Some historians report he was around 6'10, 280 pounds. He was a great warrior, highly intelligent, diplomatic and well respected by Natives and white men alike.
DNav TIL that people are being held hostage so that their blood can be regularly drained and sold for profit.
Bg68b TIL - The military–entertainment complex is the cooperation between militaries and entertainment industries to their mutual benefit, especially in such fields as cinema, multimedia, virtual reality, and multisensory extended reality.
E15rP TIL that all Hass avocados throughout the entire world are from grafted seedlings propagated from a single avocado tree that grew in the back yard of Rudolph Hass in California in 1926.
awRg9 TIL that Columbia Pictures' contract with the Three Stooges shut the actors out of royalties. Instead, despite headlining in 190 comedy shorts, the Stooges made much of their money doing live shows. When show business slowed down, lead Stooge Moe Howard sold real estate.