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TIL that many Italian recipes with eggs, like Bismarck pizza, took the name from the German Chancellor because during a public speech he said it would take "blood and iron" to effect change but the Italian crowd mistranslated his words as "blood and eggs". Bismarck was known for his fondness of eggs

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