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TIL of the Navratil twins, whose father had kidnapped them after separating from his wife. He tried to move them to America on the Titanic, but died when the ship sank. The twins were rescued and re-united with their mother after she saw a newspaper picture of them.

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wLQXo TIL: An amateur Egyptologist, Seamus Blackley, successfully baked bread with 4,500-year-old yeast extracted from ancient Egyptian ceramics once used to bake bread and brew beer. The dormant yeast was activated by a nutrient solution injected into the ceramics during the extraction process
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