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TIL about the northernmost indigenous people in the world, Greenland's Inughuit. Isolated hundreds of miles away from even from their fellow Inuit, they developed a highly specialized culture that allowed them to live in the high arctic. They only constitute 1% of Greenland's modern population.

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