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TIL that hot sand frying is a common culinary technique among street vendors in China and India for cooking chestnuts and peanuts.

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md4R TIL that actor Rowan Atkinson, famous for his hilariously dim-witted characters like Mr. Bean and Johnny English, received his Master’s degree in electrical engineering from Oxford University prior to his acting career.
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