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paleotrope on May 3, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Silk Helped the Armies of Genghis Khan Conquer Asi...

This was really hard to read.

Some component of silk provided some sort of health benefit.

resolutebat on May 3, 2024 [–]

1) Silk is woven finely enough that it's surprisingly resistant to arrows.

2) A chemical compound in silk called sericin is naturally antibiotic and acts as a wound coagulant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sericin

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