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TIL stuffed crust pizza was invented in 1995

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kJdw4 TIL That the first drilling rig to find gas in the UK North Sea, also collapsed 2 months later killing 13 people, making it the first accident in the North Sea, and was the worst accident until Piper Alpha.
oRm98 TIL "Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat" was an unofficial mascot of the 2000 Summer Olympics. He proved so popular that the Australian Olympic Committee attempted to ban athletes appearing with Fatso to stop him upstaging their official mascots.
VBJVm TIL That the English language recipe for Guacamole was presented by...a pirate
mWbv TIL that the Church of Scientology gained tax-exempt status by infiltrating the IRS, bugging its offices, and hiring private investigators to blackmail agents
W7N64 TIL in mathematics, it is not known whether there are infinite prime numbers of the form n^2 + 1 and it's one of the hardest Landau's problems.