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TIL Chicken Katsu was invented in the late 1800s by a Tokyo restaurant that wanted to offer a European-style meat cutlet to British businessmen

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VMGnk TIL the common earthworm is an invasive species which is native to Europe
GYLnQ TIL about the board game go. It was invented in Asia some 2500 years ago and has more possible board variations than atoms in the known universe. It is so exceedingly complex that it was only in 2016 that an AI defeated a human world champion (the chess world champion was defeated in 1997).
E1goW TIL that still today 50% of marriages are arranged worldwide.
16d TIL During the New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots a prisoners head exploded after a blow torch was used to burn out his eyes
pYRQG TIL that in Newfoundland, two towns called Dildo and Conception Bay South exist within miles of each other.