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TIL In 2001, Pizza Hut Delivered a Pizza to the International Space Station.

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0wkAA TIL that the United States Congress has not issued a formal declaration of war since June of 1942 (against Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania). And the USA has never "lost" such a Congressionally-declared war.
JDm8 TIL that tsunamis can travel unnoticed in deep water as fast as 500 miles an hour, and cross an entire ocean in less than a day.
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Me070 TIL that Texas Instruments invented the silicone transistor, the semiconductor, transistor radio, and TTL chips. They’re also 192nd on the Fortune 500 list, with a worth of $100 billion, and only 3% of their annual revenue comes from the calculators we always associate with them.