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TIL Scientists Can “Unboil” an Egg

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m18OR TIL that there are chickens called "Easter Eggers" that can lay blue, green, cream, olive, or pink eggs. (One egg color per chicken, but different Easter Egger chickens can lay different colored eggs.)
kJ8m TIL New York Times author Timothy O'Brien wrote that Donald Trump “only” had 250 million dollars, so Trump sued him for five billion.
neBYb TIL there is a group of single-celled organisms called Asgard archaea, Lokiarchaeum, named after the Arctic Ocean geothermal vent, Loki's Castle, where they were discovered. They are considered to be the missing link in the evolution of the cell, which separates eukaryotes like humans from bacteria.
oBNMr TIL that Norway has the most Winter Olympic medals of all time (329) with USA behind (282)
XE6LP TIL that in 1368, the town of Monção, Portugal was besieged by the Spanish. When food stocks were nearly gone, the locals were said to have thrown some fresh bread over the walls in a show of false confidence in their dwindling supplies. The disheartened invaders left.