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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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MeRYA TIL Loving cats is seen as a act of faith in Islam - there are poems, jokes and stories about the speciality and holiness of cats.
eppVD TIL that in 2011, Steven Seagal drove a tank into a house. Killing about 100 roosters and a puppy. He later said he did it because "Animal cruelty is one of my pet peeves"
5YGXp TIL of Gergely Barki. In 2009 while watching Stuart Little with his daughter, he noticed a painting that had not been seen in public since 1928. After finding the painting and putting it in the right hands. It was auctioned off for $285,000
J11eQ TIL The FDR Memorial in Washington DC was designed to be accessible to people with physical impairments. However, vision-impaired visitors complained that the braille was illegible due to improper dot spacing, and in some cases was placed eight feet off the ground.
dDKQ7 TIL the Earth is actually 3 million miles closer to the Sun during the winter (Northern Hemisphere) than in the summer