22 Educational Facts About Pizza
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Published
03/20/2015
Educate yourself about the most delicious food on Earth.
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1. In America, 350 slices of pizza are sold every second.
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2. A large pizza in Australia (11″) is smaller than a medium pizza in the US (12″)
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3. NASA is developing 3D printers that can print pizzas for astronauts.
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4. Pizza Hut began offering online pizza ordering in 1994.
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5. In 2005, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi insulted Finnish cuisine. Later, in 2008, a Finnish pizza won an international pizza contest coming first with Italy in second and Australia third. The Finnish pizza was named “Pizza Berlusconi” to mock him.
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6. Cop-killer, Philip Workman declined his last meal. Instead, he requested that a large vegetarian pizza be given to a homeless person in Nashville. His request however was denied, but in response, people donated pizzas to many homeless shelters in the city of Nashville, Tennessee.
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7. Pizza Hut made a pizza delivery to the International Space Station in 2001. They paid the Russians $1 million to transport the Pizza and even make a commercial from it.
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8. The hacker group, UGNazi in 2012 took down the Papa John’s website because their pizza was 2 hours late.
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9. One of the earliest frozen pizza companies was actually run by a family named Pizza.
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11. The FBI once tried to order pizza when investigating an insane asylum in San Diego. The pizza place hung up on them.
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12. Lady Gaga once bought $1000 worth of pizza for fans waiting in line for her.
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13. There is a pizza place in Alaska that delivers pizzas by plane.
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14. Pizza Hut had plans to engrave their logo into the Moon using lasers. Plans were scratched because the logo needed to be the size of Texas.
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15. One of the first documented Internet purchases was a pepperoni pizza with mushrooms and extra cheese from Pizza Hut.
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16. There are DVDs that look and smell like pizza when you are done watching them.
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17. In Scotland, they deep fry pizzas.
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18. Domino’s Pizza cancelled their ’30 minutes or less’ guarantee in 1993 because their drivers caused accidents while rushing to deliver pizzas on time. This had resulted in at least one fatality.
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19. A man in California was sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing a slice of pizza under three-strikes law from a group of children .
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20. The price of pizza has matched, with uncanny precision, the cost of a NYC subway ride for 50 years. Economists have named it “The Pizza Principle.”
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21. The first bitcoin transaction ever made was 10,000BTC for a pizza, which is now worth approx $1,219,000 USD
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22. In Cambodia, many pizza parlors offer “happy pizza”, which is a pizza loaded with high quality marijuana.
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