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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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0lL TIL the cult sci-fi movie Primer was made on a budget of only $7000 and grossed close to half a million dollars giving it a profit of 60,00%
LmQp TIL of the Cathedral Effect. When ceiling height is conspicuously low or high it can promote different kinds of thinking, with higher ceilings promote abstract thinking and creativity and lower ceilings promoting concrete and detail-oriented thinking.
QN0wM TIL that the 'vaquita' is currently the most endangered cetacean. There are presumably only 10 vaquita's left in the world.
DKYD TIL the only reason people in the US spell aluminium as aluminum is because Charles Martin Hall, the developer of the metal’s refinement process, misspelled it on one of his advertisements.
yQoAl TIL that the mysterious baroque painter Johannes Gumpp is known to have painted only one self portrait which also happens to be a triple self portrait in which he appears from behind painting his own face reflected in a mirror.