22 Educational Facts About Pizza

1. In America, 350 slices of pizza are sold every second.

2. A large pizza in Australia (11″) is smaller than a medium pizza in the US (12″)

3. NASA is developing 3D printers that can print pizzas for astronauts.

4. Pizza Hut began offering online pizza ordering in 1994.

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.

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.

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.

8. The hacker group, UGNazi in 2012 took down the Papa John’s website because their pizza was 2 hours late.

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.

12. Lady Gaga once bought $1000 worth of pizza for fans waiting in line for her.

13. There is a pizza place in Alaska that delivers pizzas by plane.

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.

15. One of the first documented Internet purchases was a pepperoni pizza with mushrooms and extra cheese from Pizza Hut.

16. There are DVDs that look and smell like pizza when you are done watching them.

17. In Scotland, they deep fry pizzas.

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.

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 .

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.”

21. The first bitcoin transaction ever made was 10,000BTC for a pizza, which is now worth approx $1,219,000 USD

22. In Cambodia, many pizza parlors offer “happy pizza”, which is a pizza loaded with high quality marijuana.