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TIL China isn’t even near “the other side of the planet” (for those of us living in North America)

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mvnE TIL despite being outnumbered by japanese natives by 4551%, per capita Africans are responsible for 3.5 times as much crime as Japanese natives in Japan
b6vm4 TIL leading supercomputer scientist Satoshi Matusoka would pursue his career path on the advice of his friend, Satoru Iwata, after the two worked on early NES titles together
e1rL TIL that the smell of rain is called “petrichor” and is caused by oils released by plants during dry periods then absorbed by clay and soil. Humidity then releases these oils into the air
4X7Qo TIL about Fr. James Coyle, a Catholic Priest in Alabama who was murdered in 1921 for celebrating a secret interracial marriage.
awpZN Today I learned that a certain portion of the population will consistently feel the urge to defecate shortly after walking into bookstores or libraries. Named after the otherwise-unheard-of woman whose confession to a Japanese book magazine made it famous, it's known as the Mariko Aoki phenomenon.