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TIL In Alaska, school children are learning to butcher moose. Students across all years are being equipped with life skills to survive in the wilderness.

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6EMEX TIL that when Lumber Baron William E Boeing created the Boeing Airplane Company in 1917 the company depended on designs from their first aeronautical engineer hire, Chinese MIT grad Wong Tsu. He worked for a year with the company before returning to China. He fled to Taiwan when Mao took over China
rRA7w TIL that the dots in the middle of words defined in the dictionary are to indicate where they should be hyphenated if you have to drop a line
N7W96 TIL of Aeroplankton, the atmospheric analogue to oceanic plankton that deposit many millions of airborne viruses and bacteria every day on every square meter around the planet.
Z8p6Q TIL the last new enclosed mall in America was built in 2006, and 2007 marked the first time since the 1950s that a new indoor mall was not built in the USA.
DRNr TIL that the average life expectancy for those with Down syndrome has gone from 12 years in 1912, to 25 years in the 1980’s, to upwards of 60 years in the developed world today.