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TIL Ernest Hemmingway's great-granddaughter, Cristen Hemmingway Jaynes, is also a fiction writer and a non-fiction writer on environmental issues.

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jNyXR TIL during WWII a Japanese submarine attacked coastal targets near Ellwood and Santa Barbara, California. The Steven Spielberg film, 1941, is partly based on this incident.
r5Nw TIL a hang glider by the name of Ewa Wisnierska was updrafted into a violent storm during a practice flight. She spent over 40 minutes unconscious still strapped into her glider at 32,000 feet and survived.
jyjp TIL that mammalian evolution has been fundamentally driven by viruses
KP1J TIL that North Koreans can be sentenced to “Three Generations of Punishment”, meaning you and three generations of your family would be imprisoned
GY7L1 TIL a Corned Beef Sandwich was smuggled onto Apollo 16, resulting a review of the incident by Congress.