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1688O TIL Quttinirpaaq National Park on Ellesmere Island offers day trips and multiday backpacking routes in the high arctic, including the 4500-year old Muskox Way, the route of ancient peoples. Historic Fort Conger visits are possible only when you are accompanies by Parks Canada staff
YpRdB TIL High priced college textbooks bundled with "access codes" that expire at the end of the semester largely force students to buy books at retail prices at campus bookstores and render the texts worthless in the resale market. Nearly four in 10 college courses bundle their texts with access codes.
k915 TIL. The first sales pitch for the Nerf ball was “Nerf: you can hurt babies or old people!”
OGx4Y TIL There's a Federal Railroad Administration which allows you to report when and where trains have blocked a crossing for unreasonable amounts of time.
16G4O TIL about the Maeshowe cairn, a neolithic chamber, which Vikings took refuge in during a storm in the 12th century, leaving behind one of the largest collection of runic graffiti. examples vary from "Haermund Hardaxe carved these runes" to a reference to Rangnar lothbrock