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TIL Oyster sauce was created when a Chinese man, who ran a stall selling oysters, accidentally left them cooking until it had turned into a thick gravy, which he sold as "Oyster Sauce" and led to him founding the now vast empire of Lee Kum Kee Chinese cooking sauces

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