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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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ykMX TIL, Tony Iommi, guitarist for Black Sabbath, lost the ends of two of his fretting fingers at the age of 17. He fashioned his own prosthetics and went on to be one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
WQ6B TIL that there was an episode of Mr. Rogers where he learned to breakdance
nWlvd TIL About Lolita Lebron, a Puerto Rican Nationalist who attacked the US House of Representatives to protest the forced takeover of Puerto Rico, shooting Five US Congressmen
e0XKD TIL in historic folklore, vampires suffered from arithmomania (compulsive counting). They were often combatted by placing great quantities of items near them in order to keep them occupied. This served as inspiration for The Count on Sesame Street.
0w1K1 TIL: That an estimated 17% of all 7ft tall people in the U.S. are in the NBA as compared to 0.07% of people between 6’6” and 6’8”. Meaning that if you see a 7ft tall person there is about a 1 in 6 chance they are in the NBA.