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TIL French personalities the Bogdanoff twins were the grandsons of Roland Hayes, one of the first successful Black classical composers. A Czech countess, Bertha Krakowska-Kolowrat, had an affair with Hayes, resulting in the birth of the twins' mother and Bertha's expulsion from the nobility.

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