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TIL that there is a traditional inuit food called Kiviak which is made by fermenting seabird inside a seal's skin

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a896L TIL of Frigg Fjord, the northernmost settlement in human history. In northern Greenland, it is 544km (338mi) farther north than Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Inhabited even in winter approximately 2400 years ago, inhabitants would have spent 139 straight days with the sun below the horizon.
0Pny TIL The music used in the ‘You wouldn’t steal a car’ anti-piracy advert was stolen.
WlLN TIL A Mexican man told his daughter he worked at the WTC. She never heard from him again after 9/11 – she’s certain he died in the attacks. Authorities wonder if he used the tragedy as a chance to start a new life in California and didn’t tell her. They removed his name from the 9/11 memorial.
51pQ TIL that in China it’s disrespectful to name your children after your relatives because you’ll spend much of your life talking down to a child with the same name as someone you should be respecting.
kQRd TIL The Coca-Cola company was ordered by a US judge to turn over their secret formula twice- they refused both times.