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TIL In 552AD two monks successfully smuggled silkworm eggs in their walking sticks from China to the Byzantine Empire, essentially ending the silk monopolies of China and Persia, and bringing silk manufacture to Europe.

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GYNkg TIL Teotihuacan was the largest city anywhere in the Western Hemisphere before the 1400s. It had thousands of residential compounds and scores of pyramid-temples, comparable to the largest pyramids of Egypt. It contains a massive central road and buildings but oddly, no military structures
vwbB TIL “A butt load” actually equals 108 gallons.
b4XQ TIL Greyhounds have a 270-degree range of vision. They can see objects behind them and over ½ mile in front of them.
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jxbN TIL that the English county of Sussex was divided into Rapes.