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TIL about the danish Long Egg a process of cooking two parts of egg separately and then reassembling them into a tube shape of hard boiled egg.

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4ZrN TIL Josef Mengele, a Nazi doctor who fled to South America after WW2, would use fake names to fly under the radar. One such name was, “Jose Mengele.”
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