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TIL that, in 1990, the profits from Pizza Hut restaurants operating in Russia were paid out in bottles of Vodka(Stolichnaya). Pizza Hut would then sell the vodka in the USA. Pizza Hut still holds the exclusive rights to sell Stolichnaya in the USA.

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