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TIL about the Mariko Aoki phenomenon - also known as “book bowels” or “library poops”

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b67QN TIL in 1411 a Chinese army invaded Sri Lanka, defeated and overthrew the king, and brought him back to China as a prisoner to the Ming emperor.
x6awk TIL that after the 1955 Le Mans disaster, which resulted in the deaths of ~84 people, several countries like France, Switzerland, Spain banned motorsports. Although the other countries lifted the ban within the next year, Switzerland lifted the ban only in May 2022, 67 years later
b6ZJj TIL Oreos are a knock-off of Hydrox cookies, which came out four years earlier (in 1908)
rN5Zd TIL that South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone purchased, renovated, and are reopening Casa Bonita in Denver.
kMde TIL when a plane crashed on Rikers Island in 1957, prisoners were released from the prison building to help pull people from the wreckage. Some had their sentences commuted or reduced for acts of heroism during the incident.