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TIL Malabar Giant Squirrels are real and very colorful!

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VDRD TIL Chicken used to be flavorful by itself, but we made it taste like nothing.
AD6E7 TIL that there are 100 folds in a chefs hat and that the 100 folds represent the 100 ways to cook an egg.
KYyaw TIL that the element Samarium was named after Russian mining engineer Vassili Samarsky-Bykhovets. It was the first element to be named after a person.
OoEv1 TIL: All Rainbows are full circles
EKld TIL Raphael Ravenscroft the musician who played the saxophone melody on Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street, was only paid £27 for his work and was ‘gutted’ when he first heard the playback because his saxophone was out of tune.