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TIL about the true reason the vast Hudson Bay Lowlands remain largely uninhabited and even undiscovered - it is all Muskeg, a wetland landscape of bogs and wetlands comprising organic matter, which can get so soft during spring thaw that it is known to sink building structures and even train cars

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