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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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rRdr1 TIL when Elvis Presley's debut single was first played on the local radio station, he was invited for an on-air interview. The DJ asked Elvis which high school he attended: a roundabout way of informing the audience of his race without actually asking the question
yQ4PJ TIL that fearing job losses caused by mechanization, Queen Elizabeth I denied William Lee a patent for his knitting machine in the late 1500s. He had to move to France, where he was granted a patent by Henry IV, the King of France
b9w0N TIL: Americans never 'lost' their British accents. It was the Brits that adopted 'posh' in the early 1800s. American port cities emulated it for a while.
lbxG TIL actor Wallace Shawn, while playing Vizzini (“Inconceivable!”) in The Pricess Bride, didn’t understand the movie’s sense of humor. Director Rob Reiner gave him line readings, and he merely imitated them.
wQdE TIL: During the American Civil War, the king of Russia sent warships to protect New York City in case of a French or British sneak attack against the USA.