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tilthat:

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.

via reddit.com

Even funnier, it was funded, planned, and coordinated by the Emperor Justinian himself as a wild ‘n wacky heist YEARS in the making.

Comedy heist movie set in 552 AD about these two monks

ABSOLUTELY

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