Who doesn’t love pizza? Pizza has been described as the world’s perfect food. We know its the perfect food for students. But, here are 7 Things You Don’t Know About: Pizza.

1. The longest pizza delivery, according to the Guiness Book of World Records, was from London to Melbourne, Australia. A total of 10,532 miles.
2. Pizza didn’t become widely popular in American until after World War II, when returning veterans brought back stories of the dish from the campaign through Italy.
3. Domino’s Pizza was founded in Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1960.
4. The world’s first pizzeria is widely accepted to be Antica Pizzeria Port’Alba in Naples, which started indoor service in about 1830.
5. Shakey’s Pizza, opening in 1954, was one of the first chain pizza restaurants. Pizza Hut followed in 1958.
6. Gennaro Lombardi opened a grocery story in Little Italy, Manhattan in 1897 and in 1905 he began serving pizza. This is generally regarded to be the first pizzeria in the United States of America.
7. The two most common misconceptions about the origin of pizza state that it was brought back to Italy by Marco Polo from China or that it was invented by Italian immigrants in America; Pizza, as we know it now, was first made in Naples, Italy.

Mmmmm, pizza! Now you know a little bit more about that perfect food.