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TIL Octopus Wrestling was a famous sport back in the 60s.

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6EwWY TIL that the first patent for a fax machine was awarded in 1843, before even the invention of the telephone, and the first PHOTOGRAPHIC fax machine was invented in 1880, only four years after Alexander Graham Bell received his first telephone patent.
9YKPG TIL that during cold war, CIA conducted a $350 million cost secret project in 1974 called Project Azorian to recover a soviet submarine K-129 sunken in 1968 in the Pacific Ocean. It recovered only 1/3rd of the submarine, but the research lead to great advances in deep ocean drilling and mining.
Y7Klx TIL that to decide who would rule the Persian Empire (44% of world population), six nobles decided on a test. They were to gather outside the palace, mounted on their horses at sunrise, and the man whose horse neighed first in recognition of the rising sun would become King of Kings.
BgKmy TIL that Theodore Roosevelt is the only United States President to have received the Medal of Honor, with it being awarded to him posthumously in 2001 after having been nominated during the Spanish American War.
ADPX4 TIL of Movile Cave. Life in the cave has been separated from the outside for the past 5.5 million years and it is based completely Chemosynthesis. The atmosphere deep in the cave it like an alien planet, and more than 30 of the species found inside cannot be found anywhere else on Earth.