Over 5 billion pizzas are sold worldwide each year.

Kids from 3 to 11 years of age prefer pizza over all other food groups for lunch and dinner.

Women are twice as likely as men to order vegetables on their pizza.

Pizza deliverers claim women are better tippers.

The world's fastest pizza maker can make 14 pizzas in 2 minutes and 35 seconds.

36% of people consider pizza the perfect breakfast.

The longest pizza delivery was from Cape Town, South Africa to Sydney, Australia.

In Italy there is a bill to safeguard the traditional Italian pizza, specifying permissible ingredients and methods of processing. Only pizzas which follow these guidelines can be called ‘traditional Italian pizzas’, at least in Italy.

The most expensive pizza ever made was by the restaurateur Domenico Crolla who created a $2,745.00 priced Valentine pizza which included toppings such as sunblush-tomato sauce, Scottish smoked salmon, medallions of venison, edible gold, lobster marinated in the finest cognac and champagne-soaked caviar.

What has been called ‘the world's most extravagant pizza’ is available at New York's Nino's Bellissima restaurant. Topped with six varieties of caviar, chives, fresh lobster and crème fraiche, this 12-inch pie, called the ‘Luxury Pizza’, retails at $1,000.00 (or $125.00 a slice).

According to the Guinness Book of Records, the largest recorded pizza ever made was 37.4 metres in diameter at Norwood Hypermarket in South Africa on 8 December 1990.