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TIL that a French chemist unboiled an egg

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VMGEB TIL before working on the Donald Duck comics and creating Scrooge McDuck. Carl Barks began his career at a racy man's magazine "Calagary Eye Opener" in the early 1920s. After retiring, he made tons of erotic artwork showing people with duck bills he jokingly referred to as the "Duck Syndrome".
b6RWN TIL that the Eiffel Tower was originally designed for Barcelona, but it was rejected for aesthetic reasons. The design was not popular in Paris at the time; some 300 intellectuals and artists called it an eyesore.
P1MmL TIL The International Day of Human Fraternity was established by the United Nations General Assembly as a way to promote greater cultural and religious tolerance.
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