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TIL about the Sakya Monastery library in Tibet. The library was found sealed on a 60-metre-long 10-metre-high wall in Tibet containing 84000 secret manuscripts (books) which include 1000 years of human history. Sakya Monastery was founded in 1073. Most of them are Buddhist scriptures, although they also include works of literature, history, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, and art. In 2003, the library was examined by the Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences. The monastery started to digitize the library in 2011. As of 2022, all books have been indexed, and more than 20% have been fully digitized. Monks now maintain a digital library for all scanned books and documents.

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TIL that stealing sand is one of the world's largest organized crime activities, and it's THE largest in India. https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/conservation/issues/sand-is-such-high-demand-people-are-stealing-tons-it.htm

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TIL: wombats twerk predators to death with their super strong butts

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TIL that Gerber, maker of baby food, once attempted to launch a similar, 'meal in a jar' product line aimed at college students and young adults, "Gerber Singles" -- it was a tremendous flop, even with such appetizing entrees as "Beef Burgundy" and "Mediterranean Vegetables" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerber_Singles

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TIL that 8 countries in west Africa all share one central bank

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TIL Camels like beer

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TIL that certain sea urchins naturally put shells, rocks, or even tiny hats on their heads! This behavior serves as protection and camouflage, helping them blend into their environment and avoid predators. In some aquariums, people have even given them little hats to wear, and the urchins happily pick them up, just like they would with natural objects. This could’ve been a great degen meme

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TIL: frequency of memorable events is connected to how fast time feels to be going to us

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TIL about Cunningham’s Law, which states that when something can go wrong, it will

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Where there's a will there's a way. In an attempt to curb publisher's from flooding the NES with sub par games, Nintendo implemented restrictions by capping the amount of games a publisher could release for the console per year at 10 titles. Konami got around this by starting a shell company, splitting their output and distributing titles between the two, effectively bypassing Nintendo's restriction. The consensus was that since Konami was a quality publisher at the time, Nintendo turned the other cheek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8H7RMzARb0

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TIL How files were made back in day (without other file) https://youtu.be/ntsROi3xNS8?si=Mo94my3cDI4o2WmT A necessary tool for all kind of other tool making.

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I just learned that if you accept the meeting in Outlook, but do it without sending a receipt back, it still shows you as being tentative. I always used to accept without sending the receipt because I didn't want to drown people's inboxes with receipt notices. Someone was complaining that I never responded to meeting invites, and I was thinking I responded every single time.

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