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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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nWGNr TIL an autistic single dad of an autistic son quit his job to run a Minecraft server only autistic people could join, so they have a community to socially interact with others without being bullied.
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