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TIL: Ernest Hemingway ended up being quarantined for most of the Summer with his wife and his mistress in 1926

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PY4Nw TIL Canadian author, Markoosie Patsauq published the first Inuktitut language novel in 1974. Patsauq wrote the coming of age story Harpoon of the Hunter in 1969 when he worked as a pilot (the first Inuk pilot in Canada), using material he had heard from family members
DQYwe TIL that the Incans genetically modified and hybridized crops such as potatoes at sites like the Moray Terrace.
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