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TIL The very first pizza delivery is attributed to Queen Margherita of Savoy in 1889

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pxDO TIL Jamie Lee Curtis saw a photo of Christopher Guest in Rolling Stone magazine and declared to a friend “Oh, I’m going to marry that guy.” She did so five months later. They’re still married today, 31 years later.
AD6D4 TIL about the American Colonization Society, which was an early advocate of the idea of resettling American-born blacks in Africa; Notable members of the American Colonization Society included Thomas Buchanan, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison.
xVGM0 TIL that Doctor Who briefly featured Kamelion, an android who was "played" by an actual robot. Unfortunately, the writers had to kill the character off when the robot's inventor, who was the only one who knew how to control it, died in a boating accident.
78gRX TIL that, in 2011, researchers at the Mayo Clinic created cats that would give off a green glow under ultraviolet light. The goal was not to fluoresce cats, but to track the progress of gene modification while searching for a treatment for Feline AIDS.
OoVbX TIL that written words in Old English had no standardized spelling, but were spelled phonetically.