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TIL manuscripts maintained by double cloisters where monks and nuns allied together and physically located next to each other had more repairs done to parchment (skin) tears and holes than standalone cloisters. Some repairs used the parchment holes as a starting point for illustrations

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N7xBN TIL the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) is the largest canid of South America. It is neither a fox nor a wolf. It is the only species in the genus Chrysocyon which literally means "golden dog", and it communicates mainly by scent markings and a kind of "roar-barking." Its urine smells like weed.
9k0B TIL your brain makes imaginary monsters when you stare in a mirror.
J1Y5Q TIL about Jon Lech Johansen, a self-trained software engineer who created software that decoded DVD copy protection. Johansen defended himself against computer hacking charges, arguing he didn't access anyone else's information: he owned the DVDs. He was acquitted in 2003.
e4nL TIL that, in the early nineties, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg literally traded movie properties they were no longer interested in making. The films? Cape Fear (1991) and Schindler’s List (1993).
yv5M TIL Los Angeles once had the largest electric rail system in the world, until automobile, tire, and oil companies bought and dismantled it, along with mass transit systems in 44 other US cities. The mass transit systems were replaced with freeways and buses, increasing sales of cars, tires, and oil.