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TIL Pizza Hut began offering online pizza ordering… in 1994.

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rN484 TIL that in 1992 video game magazine, EGM, published an article that, as an April fools joke, alluded to the presence of a hidden character in Street Fighter named Sheng Long. This joke took off and so many people bought into it they eventually actually did add a Sheng Long character to the series
LLxp TIL a mycologist named Paul Stamets argues mushrooms will revolutionize our way of life by using the mycelium fungus to clean polluted soil, make insecticides, treat smallpox and even flu viruses.
VnjB TIL that if honey is kept covered, it will never spoil. Pots of honey have been found that are thousands of years old that are still edible.
GRPE TIL in 1961 a b-52 broke apart mid air over Goldsboro, North Carolina causing two nuclear bombs to fall. One parachute functioned properly, that bomb survived. When the other bomb hit the ground 5 out of 6 safety devices malfunctioned, a single switch prevented a nuclear explosion.
WkZ6N TIL Swedish elk (moose to North Americans) get drunk on fermenting apples and sometimes get stuck in trees