Eight prime factors
The numbers 38 and 77 are each the product of two primes; furthermore their difference (39) and their sum (115) are also each the product of two primes, and the eight primes involved are all different.
There is one other pair of two-digit positive integers for which all this is true. What are those two integers?
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