One man was literally selling snake oil a thing I had never seen before in addition to ant-egg oil, hair tonic, and unscented soap for pilgrims.

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As the oil carries on gushing and oil prices stay high, the Norwegian nest egg cannot stop getting bigger.

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Egg Tempera, which uses egg yolk to bind pigments, dates back to Egyptian times but became largely obsolete after oil paints appeared in the Renaissance.

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To compensate for this, egg producers in the US commonly used to spray eggs with a thin layer of odorless, colorless mineral oil.

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