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TIL palimpsest are texts which have been scrapped to be reused. In the Middle Age, due to the scarcity of parchment (made from animal skins), older manuscripts were reused this way

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neE9W TIL of The Testimony of Truth, a 4th century Gnostic manuscript that tells the story of The Garden of Eden from the point of view the serpent, a gnostic symbol for divine wisdom and knowledge, in which it depicts God as jealous and the villain in the story.
rNNP1 TIL that during the Civil War, Asa Tift, a notable Salvager from Key West, Florida, and his brothers financed a ship to be built for the Confederates in Mobile, Alabama. However, after the Unions victory at Vicksburg, Tift and his brothers decided to blow up the ship rather than let it be captured.
Zpwpo TIL about Larry Hoover, a gang leader of CBGD, or Chicago's Black Gangster Disciples Nation. After being sent to prison, he was inspired by the biography of Richard J. Daley and decided to change his gangs GD to Growth and Development, and forced his army learn to better their community instead.
9w4Jp TIL William Sessions (FBI director until 1993) became a lawyer for the Russian mob's international leader
neb9 TIL Lego is the largest manufacturer of tires in the world