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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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XEd9E TIL the phrase "The luck of the Irish"'s original meaning was Irish people could only achieve success through luck rather than skill.
QN9l9 TIL In Aztec mythology, childbirth was regarded as a woman's struggle with the gods to ensure her child's survival. Mothers who survived were celebrated, while those who died were believed to become Cihuateteo, a vampire-like creature that stole other women's children.
E1kJp TIL the Comoro blue vanga (Cyanolanius madagascarinus comorensis) is considered a subspecies of the blue vanga by ornithologists. It is found only on the Comoros Islands and is recognized by it exceptionally vivid blue bill, head and back and snow-white throat and under parts. (see pic in comments)
OO6X TIL: the nazis intentionally flooded a region and introduced malaria carrying mosquitoes to stop the Allied advance. It didn’t kill any allied forced, but did kill 50k Italians.
D1bjv [TIL] Australia does not have the most venomous organisms in the world. That goes to Mexico and followed by Brazil. Australia is ranked third.