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TIL that there is a more human way of extracting silk from Sikworms instead of boiling them alive, called Ahimsa Silk. But we choose cruelty anyways!

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W9KY TIL a group of 55 Chimpanzees has more genetic diversity than all 7 billion humans.
ADGyx TIL Polaris aka the North Star, appears stationary in the sky because it is positioned close to the line of the Earths axis projected into space. As such, it is the only bright star whose position relative to a rotating Earth does not change.
WalX TIL that Slovakia and Slovenia are mistakenly thought to be each other so often they meet once a month to exchange wrongly adressed mail
R6kw TIL a small lake in Africa killed 1,700 villagers and 3,500 livestock overnight when it suddenly released 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide, suffocating everything within 16 miles. Scientists still don’t know what triggered the event.
O1GL TIL that the word “metaphysics” literally means “after physics”. An early editor of Aristotle’s works needed a placeholder name for the untitled philosophical book that came after the the book he called Physics.