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TIL there's a train station in Paris named after Rosa Parks

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6ERLl TIL a Ohio Morgue worker had sex with over 100 dead bodies.
LkQMd TIL of the "Niihau Incident". After a Japanese Pilot crashed on a remote Hawaiian Island following Pearl Harbor, three Japanese Americans tried to help him escape, taking locals hostage and shooting at one. Their actions may have influenced the decision to intern Japanese Americans during WWII.
Me1ba TIL about Kiyomizu-dera, a temple where people used to jump off its 43ft stage due to a belief that those who survived the fall would have their wish granted. Of the 234 jumps recorded during the Edo period, 85.4% survived.
xRgB TIL that China harvests the internal organs of detained prisoners, including Tibetans, underground Christians, and practicioners of the peaceful Falun Gong spiritual movement.
OYAR TIL that stairs in medieval times wound in a clockwise direction to place attacking swordsmen (often right-handed) at a disadvantage.