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TIL: Delivering pizza is more dangerous than firefighting.

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R5ym7 TIL birds are not descended from bird-hipped dinosaurs (Ornithischians,) but rather, lizard-hipped dinosaurs (Saurischians). Birds and bird-hipped dinosaurs evolved their hip structures independently of one another.
ODZ4 TIL Pizza Hut made a delivery to the International Space Station in 2001. They paid the Russians $1 million to transport the Pizza.
Dw8p TIL During the filming of the flood scene for Noah’s Ark (1928), the great volume of water used was so overwhelming that three extras drowned, leading to the implementation of stunt safety regulations the following year.
wxEY TIL Thomas Jefferson is accredited as the creator of the swivel chair, the first of which he created and used to write much of the Declaration of Independence.
1VOd TIL; bill paxton is one of the only people to have ever been killed by a terminator, predator, and ALIEN.