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TIL that in 2001, Pizza Hut delivered a pizza to the international space station for Russian cosmonauts via a Soyuz rocket.

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D5lg TIL “Bookkeeper” and “bookkeeping” are the only words in the English language with three consecutive sets of double letters without hyphens, while “Subbookkeeper” is the only word found in an English language dictionary with four pairs of double letters in a row.
kJ7dm TIL some frogs in South/Central America have the rare ability to become nearly transparent when they're sleeping but look opaque reddish-brown when hopping around. Using light and ultrasound imaging technology they found the frogs concentrate their blood in their liver, draining them of most color.
PXpJ TIL a battle, involving over 30,000 Roman troops and a larger Pontic opposition, resulted in a tie, after both sides withdrew from the field scared, as they witnessed a ‘silvery-hot’ meteor bombarding the middle ground between them.
vMYD TIL that, in 1955, someone dropped a 600+ year-old plaster statue of Buddha, only to discover after some of the plaster chipped off, that the statue was actually solid gold.
JDJV TIL the marvel universe doesn’t have teenage sidekicks because they are Stan Lee’s pet peeve