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TIL that in 1989, a man named Kenneth Noid held two Domino’s Pizza employees hostage at gunpoint for five hours; he believed that Domino’s advertising slogan “Avoid the Noid” was targeted at him. The employees managed to escape when he got hungry and ate some pizza.

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