Random Pizza facts you DIDN'T know. ⁠

1. DOUGH-SPINNING IS AN ART FORM.⁠
Think spinning pizza dough sounds simple? Think again. Dough-spinning has its own professional-level sporting event where pizza teams compete in acrobatic dough-spinning competitions at the World Pizza Championships.⁠

2. PIZZA WAS INVENTED IN NAPLES IN THE 1800S⁠
Created as a way to feed the poor and hungry masses, this now world-famous dish came from very humble beginnings. Pizzas were sold cheaply on the streets and eaten by hand, a form of dining dubbed ‘disgusting’ by wealthy (and probably jealous) Neapolitans.⁠

3. MARGHERITA WAS THE FIRST EVER PIZZA FLAVOUR⁠
In 1889 Queen Margherita visited Naples with her husband King Umberto. The pair grew tired of their diet, which consisted exclusively of French haute cuisine, and wished to try a local dish. The pizza delivered to them was topped with white cheese, basil and tomatoes, the colours of the Italian flag. It was dubbed the Margherita.⁠

4. IN 2001, A PIZZA GOT DELIVERED INTO SPACE⁠
Yuri Usachov, a Russian astronaut living on the International Space Station, was the recipient of the first ever avionic fast food delivery. He had to wait a while though, it took nearly a year to develop and supply the specialty pie. The astro-pizza featured normal ingredients like cheese, tomato sauce, a salami topping along with a crispy crust.
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