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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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9VlD TIL Samuel L. Jackson Has Bad Motherfucker Engraved On His “Star Wars” Purple Lightsaber
L10d TIL As a child, Stephen Colbert suppressed his Southern accent to avoid the stereotypes of Southerners he saw on TV. He practiced by trying to imitate news anchors.
VB0Rm TIL: All the dog scast as Lassie in TV and movies have been descendants of the first dog to play the role
70mP TIL a 57yo Japanese man has been learning to SCUBA dive specifically so he can look for his wife’s remains after she was presumably swept away during the 2011 tsunami. He says her last email to him was “… I want to go home”, and he is determined to make that happen.
56VB TIL canned 100% pumpkin is actually 100% squash. Pumpkins can be stringy and watery and the USDA is lenient with gourd terminology, so it’s perfectly legal to label a food product as “pumpkin” when, in reality, it’s made from a different variety of squash.