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[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

The most prized pigment of antiquity was processed not from a tangle of root or the frothy extract of a weed, but by drawing out a slimy secretion from the mucus glands behind the anus of murex sea snails …

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