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TIL on Kenta Kobashi faced Kensuke Sasaki in a wrestling match where Yoshihiro Takayama, on commentary stated “I hope this never ends.” This was during a chop exchange fans were witness to. Over 180 chops across the chest were exchanged between the two men for nearly 5 minutes.

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WaEN TIL in 1880 Alex Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, also invented the photophone, a device that transmits sound using visible light. Although he called it his greatest invention, it wasn’t until the 1980s, over a century later, that it precursed fibre optics, the backbone of the modern Internet
oVVo TIL NASA will begin producing its own food in orbit for the first time ever – The lettuce will be grown under bright-pink LED lights, ready to harvest after just 28 days.
J75l TIL giant camels roamed Canada’s High Arctic about 3.5 million years ago
6EpdX TIL: Russians have portable deapth charge launcher
b9PGN TIL a quiet American POW was nicknamed "The Incredibly Stupid One" by his Vietnamese captors. Upon his return to the US, he provided the names of over 200 prisoners of war, which he had memorized to the tune of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm."