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Pizza Facts You Never Knew

Find out every tasty fact you need to know about the world's most popular food: pizza.

Pizza is one of the few foods that almost everyone knows and loves around the world. It's cheesy, delicious, and just about everywhere. And in honor of this comfort food favorite, we put together a list of pizza facts that will fuel your cravings even more.

1 350 slices of pizza are eaten each second in the U.S.

Pizza is one of the most popular food options for Americans, with 350 slices eaten by the second. To put that in perspective, about 21,000 slices are eaten nationally in just one minute.

2 More than 2 million Pizza Hut pizzas are sold during the Super Bowl

One of the biggest days for pizzerias around the country is Super Bowl Sunday. Pizza is a major staple for this sports event, with an average of 2,500,000 pizzas being sold from Pizza Hut alone.

3 Currently, there are 18,703 Pizza Huts around the world

Pizza Hut was founded in 1958 and has become one of the most popular pizza chains in the world.

4 The first pizza is thought to have been invented in Naples in the early 1500s

Historians from the William E. Macaulay Honors College discovered that the lower-income people of Naples would put slices of tomatoes on dough and top it with cheese to make a cheap and easy meal for their families. According to the researchers, tomatoes were thought to be poisonous during these days, which is why pizza was considered a cheaper food.

5 The first documented pizzeria in the world was open in Port'Alba in Naples, Italy during the late 1800s

The researchers at the William E. Macaulay Honors College also noted that the first pizzeria opened in Port'Alba, Naples. The pizzeria, called Antica Pizzeria, named the Margherita pizza after Queen Margherita of Italy.