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TIL Pizza Hut made a delivery to the International Space Station

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gpY7 TIL The number of aircraft destroyed during WWII is greater than the number of aircraft that currently exist in the entire world today.
9Yobr TIL Georgia has been described as "the best corruption-buster in the world." The country has fought post-Soviet corruption through centralizing education, increasing the education and pay of bureaucrats, publicly arresting corrupt politicians, firing entire government departments, and more.
6Eebl TIL of Albert Battel and Max Liedtke, German officers who threatened to shoot a group of SS attempting to execute Jews in Poland. They successfully rescued 100 Jews, and are among the few Wehrmacht members to be recognised as Righteous Among the Nations
mWVy TIL German Chocolate Cake is not German, its from Texas, named after the “German Chocolate” used in the cake, which is also not German.
9YnOQ TIL the last surviving Civil War Pension recipient died less than 10 weeks ago.