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TIL former Canadian musician Antoine Sicotte (Sky) has been working as a chef since 2009 as The Rebel Chef, having hosted his own cooking show and authored several cookbooks.

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LklDr TIL Offspring of some worm-like amphibians called caecilians allow their young to eat their flesh. The mothers of Boulengerula taitanus create a nutrient-rich fatty outer layer of skin after laying their eggs. When their offspring hatch, the babies scrape this layer off with specialized teeth.
OoYwX TIL road damage mostly results from trucks and buses. The damage a vehicle causes is proportional to the axle load raised to the fourth power, so doubling the weight an axle carries actually causes 16 times as much damage.
5YQVP TIL mosquitoes fill no significant ecological niche, and if they went extinct there would be few, if any ill effects.
e0jGE TIL A study on theft has indicated that most thieves are active only for a short period of time and make very little money at it. In fact, theft looks not so much like a way of getting free stuff or money as a stage some people experience in adolescence — and most grow out of it.
6EdWY TIL: The younger son of US President Calvin Coolidge died from an infected blister he got playing tennis without wearing socks.