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TIL A high school in Nunavut, Canada takes students on fox trapping sessions, offers polar bear body parts for science class, and has events where students skin seal meat for elders

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YpYar TIL that when the US Marines were first experimenting with reconnaissance drones, they named their model the "Bikini" because it was a "small item that covered a large area of interest."
Oo0PL TIL that Lyndon B Johnson once gave an impromptu news conference to a reporter and two colleagues while completely nude. It was a hot day, so he just took off all of his clothes as he was talking to them, acting like everything was completely normal.
e49k TIL when Einstein died in 1955, the physician who conducted his autopsy at Princeton stole his brain and took it home to perform “research”, for which he was ultimately fired after refusing to return the brain. Decades later, he drove to California to return the brain to Einstein’s granddaughter.
rNamM TIL: Art was once an Olympic sport. This was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin (Founder of modern games) Between 1912 and 1948 medals were given out for sporting-inspired masterpieces of architecture, music, painting, sculpture and literature.
NjRE TIL in 2001 a man wrestled a 7-foot bull shark to retrieve the severed arm of his nephew. After saving the boy the man dived back in, seized the shark and wrestled it to shore where a ranger shot it. The arm was pried from its gullet, put on ice, rushed to the hospital and successfully sewed back on