One of the earlier frozen pizza companies was run by a family with the last name of ‘Pizza’.

October has officially been designated at National Pizza Month in the US

The term pizza first appeared in a Latin text from the southern Italian town of Gaeta in 997 AD. It stated that a certain person owed the bishop “duodecim pizze”, or twelve pizzas.

.In the United States, pizza makes up for about 10% of all food service sales.

The most popular day to consume pizza is Saturday.

Because Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi insulted Finnish food in 2005, three years later when Finland beat Italy in an international pizza contest, they named their winning slice the “Pizza Berlusconi”

Philip Workman, on death row for killing a police officer, rejected his last meal and instead asked for a vegetarian pizza to be given to a homeless person. The court rejected his request but numerous people then donated pizzas around Nashville.

Domino’s canceled their 30 minutes or less delivery policy because their drivers were causing too many accidents.

Domino’s Pizza and Little Caesars Pizza were founded only 18 miles apart from each other in Michigan.

One of the first ever documented online purchases was a pepperoni pizza from Pizza Hut.

In Scotland, pizzas are deep fried.

Until tomatoes showed up, Pizzas looked very different in old Italy.

FBI agents conducted a “search and seizure” at the Southwood Psychiatric Hospital in San Diego, which was under investigation for medical insurance fraud. After hours of poring over many rooms of financial records, some sixty FBI agents worked up quite an appetite. The case agent in charge of the investigation called a local pizza parlor with delivery service to order a quick dinner for his colleagues. The pizza establishment promptly hung up on the agent and refused to deliver.

Some DVDs are designed to look and smell like pizza while they are playing (due to the heat).

Back in 2012, a hacker group known as UGNazi took the Papa John’s website offline because of a pizza delivery that was 2 hours late.

A medium pizza in the US is about 12 inches. That is bigger than a large pizza in Australia, which is only 11 inches.

When Boris Yeltsin was president of Russia, the White House Secret Service found him in downtown Washington DC, drunk and in his underwear, trying to fetch a cab to get some pizza

Cambodian pizza shops often on ‘happy pizza’ on the menu, which is regular pizza with marijuana on it.

Hawaiian pizza is actually from Canada. 23

At one point, Pizza Hut had planned to engrave their logo on the moon with lasers. Apparently the plans were scratched because the logo would have had to be roughly the size of Texas.

There is an airplane pizza delivery service in Alaska.

Known as the Pizza Principle, economists have noticed that for the last 50 years the price of a pizza has almost perfectly matched the cost of a New York City subway ride

Back in 2001, Pizza Hut actually made a delivery to the International Space Station. The paid Russians $1 million to transport the pizza and even filmed a commercial about it.

Every second, 350 slices of pizza are sold in the United States.

Nasa is working on 3D printers that will print pizzas for astronauts.