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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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woV77 TIL 17 yr old future President Herbert Hoover showed great talent on the math entrance exam for Stanford but he never finished high school. He received remedial tutoring in August before he was accepted into the tuition-free university, and he vowed to help other students get a Stanford education
yVXvv TIL 18 yr old Dick Van Dyke enlisted in the Air Force during WWII singing and dancing on base in Sherman TX with the hopes of avoiding being sent to fight the Japanese. An impromptu audition at the latrine earned him a permanent announcer gig on base.
KYvYG TIL that in the early 2000s, a US nuclear submarine, "Greenville" had catastropically collided with a japanse high school training vessel. During a VIP demonstration voyage, after performing an emergency surfacing - the submarine sliced the training vessel in half.
mw1p TIL In 1974 a lawyer sent a demand to the Cleveland Browns to make them stop letting fans create and throw paper airplanes. The team responded by calling him a stupid asshole.
jNN7N People naturally have a morbid curiosity about the Titanic disaster, wondering about every little detail of that fateful April night in 1912, and slowly but surely virtually every detail has been revealed since.