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TIL: North Korea have deposited 500 cannabis strains in the Doomsday Seed Bank while the U.S. has sent none

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6EK1Q TIL Grey Worm from Game Of Thrones(Jacob Anderson) is a musician that goes by the alias Raleigh Ritchie (named after his favourite characters from The Royal Tenenbaums)
nWKad TIL Humans can create rain by adding silver iodide, potassium iodide, and dry ice to clouds. It's called cloud seeding and it's been around since 1946.
7rE4X TIL Some maniac scientists have created transgenic albino silkworm monstrosities which spin SPIDER silk. The idea is to weave it into bullet proof vests, surgical replacement ligaments, and super light aircraft. And for fighting crime, obviously.
LQvgr TIL that serial killer Ted Bundy helped police catch Gary Ridgway, the "Green River Killer". In 1984, Bundy offered his opinions on the psychology, motivations, and behavior of the killer, and that he was revisiting body dump sites, which turned out to be true. Ridgway was arrested in 2001.
4rjX TIL that a former member of both Nirvana and Soundgarden went on to be a decorated Army Ranger.