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TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, was featured in a 1998 television advertisement for Pizza Hut.

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1xG7 TIL that while Mother’s Day is the biggest holiday for phone calls, Father’s Day is the busiest for collect calls.
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