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TIL in ancient Rome 1 pound of Tyrian purple dye cost 3 pounds of gold because it took 10,000 shellfish to produce 1 gram of it.

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oBARW TIL that Saif ad din qutz was enslaved by the Mongols and sold in the Syrian slave market and then to Egyptian sultan. Rising to prominence under the Sultan, he became the grand vizier and decisively defeated the Mongols at the battle of Ain el jut and halted the Mongol conquest