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TIL Pizza Hut once made a delivery to the International Space Station in 2001. They paid the Russians $1 million to transport the Pizza (and make a commercial from it).

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7j97 TIL the British online newspaper ‘The Independent’ is owned by Russian oligarch, Alexander Lebedev and his son. Lebedev also owns a stake in Gazprom, a Russian oil company headquarter in Moscow, and a stake in Sbrerbank, a Russian bank accused of funding insurgents in Ukraine.
PJvE TIL that the New London, CT police department was sued when it refused to hire an applicant it judged too smart to be a police officer.
6EvQm TIL- Bees don't buzz during an eclipse - Using tiny microphones suspended among flowers, researchers recorded the buzzing of bees during the 2017 North American eclipse. The bees were active and noisy right up to the last moments before totality. As totality hit, the bees all went silent in unison.
xNMw TIL That while Mandarin Has Twice as Many Native Speakers as English, English Has Twice as Many Total Speakers.
xbwk TIL that Tesla Motors not only operates a network of super fast chargers for theirs cars that operate solely off solar power, but they also promise that it will be free forever to tesla owners.