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TIL about the "Mariko Aoki effect", which is when people have an urge to poop caused by visiting a bookstore

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j647p TIL cazu martzu is a cheese that has living maggots in it. If you don't chew enough the maggots can be your intestines. It is banned for obvious reasons but the demand for the maggot cheese is so large there is a black market that brings in 2-3 million euros annually
M7V7A TIL about Sarah Josepha Hale. She wrote the poem "Mary had a Little Lamb" and was editor of the most influential women's magazine of the time. Helping to found Vassar College. Over the course of 17 years she wrote five different presidents urging them to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.
xVJ5w TIL the Ethiopian calendar is 7-8 years behind the Gregorian calendar, meaning that the current year in that calendar is 2012. It has a thirteenth month, consisting of five days, or six in leap years. Also, the first day of the year is on September 11, or on September 12 in leap years.
8Qlb TIL that Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay in which he encouraged scientists to find ways of “improving the odor of human flatulence.”
R7Za8 TIL Graham crackers were invented to help curb masterbation