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TIL Nick Offerman made an instructional video that shows you how to build your own wooden canoe from scratch.

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OG5WX TIL that pizza was invented in Naples, Italy as an inexpensive food to be consumed quickly. It remained unknown outside of Naples until Italian immigrants brought it to the US in the early 20th Century, where it would take the country by storm after WW2.
10NX TIL that a trained crow named Jimmy the Raven appeared in over 1,000 feature films between 1934 and 1954.
mxy6x TIL Tom DeLonge, the guitarist for Blink-182, co-founded To The Stars Academy, a company dedicated to studying fringe science and UFOs.
R7P04 TIL that Michelson-Morley experiments (to prove a theory competing with special relativity) are still being conducted, with the first one dating back to 1881
5ErQ TIL that movie trailers were originally shown after the movie, which is why they were called “trailers”