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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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JmQ1 TIL that adopting two puppies from the same litter can be detrimental to the puppies and their ability to bond with their owner; this is referred to as “littermate syndrome.”
XE9GE TIL that aspects of your personality are determined by how your brain works.. e.g. if the frontal part of your brain is more dominant on the left side you are probably the kind of person that approaches a problem, if your right side is dominant you avoid the cause of the problem
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