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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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0wlwL TIL that the worst maritime disaster of the 21st Century was the loss of "MV Le Joola". Some victims were trapped in the hull for 4 hours before the ship finally submerged. Only 64 survived out of a total of 1,927 people on board.
d47E TIL Denmark’s healthcare system is primarily managed at the local level, with central govt having a very limited role
LbLd TIL Keanu Reeves gave $80 million of his $114 million earnings from the two sequels of The Matrix to the special effects and makeup staff. He is quoted as saying “Money is the last thing I think about. I could live on what I have already made for the next few centuries.”
8NDG TIL: The Third World was so named during the Cold War to describe countries not aligned with the US or USSR, and had nothing to do with poverty
yQLrp TIL that The Hunt for Red October (1990), Patriot Games (1992), and The Sum of All Fears (2002) are all apart of the same film series, the most recent of which was Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) starring Chris Pine.