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TIL that one of the earliest frozen pizza companies was actually run by a family named Pizza

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VM1dZ TIL that the modern United States of America is considered a 'Hyperpower' having eclipsed the status of a Superpower.
9QrM TIL: A man tried to rob a bank after paying $500 to a wizard to make him invisible. Thinking no one could see him, he strolled into a bank in Tehran and started snatching money out of people’s hands
RWva TIL most of the Islamic world mourned and condemned the 9-11 attacks, including Turkey half-masting all flags and Iran holding candlelight vigils.
1YEO TIL on the night of the first script read through for The Princess Bride, Andre the Giant got so drunk he passed out in the hotel lobby. Staff were unable to move him so they set up velvet ropes around him and told the maids not to vacuum.
gr1E8 TIL that in 1984 a group of men crossed the ocean Atlantic, in a 13.6-meter (45-foot) by 5.8-meter rudderless log raft with a single sail