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...that more than 1,000 languages were spoken in the Americas at the time of contact with Europeans?

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...that the semi-lunar knife called an ulu is an Inuit invention that many find just as useful today as people did in the past?

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...that the archaeologist William J. Wintemberg collected charcoal from Ontario archaeological sites long before the discovery of radiocarbon dating just because he thought it might prove useful to future researchers?

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...that people have been mining silver in the Great Lakes region for 2,000 years?

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...that the Iroquoian-speaking nation encountered by Jacques Cartier along the St. Lawrence River in 1534 had completely disappeared prior to Champlain’s voyage to the region somewhat more than half a century later... and scholars still don’t know why?

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...that quartz holds a metaphysical significance for many people around the world that may be attributed to triboluminescence, a phenomena whereby a flash of light is produced when two pieces are rubbed together?

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...that 11,000 years ago people hunted mastodon north of what is now Toronto, Ontario, Canada?

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...that Salish women of Canada’s Northwest coast once wove blankets from the woolly coat of a special breed of dog, now extinct, that they raised specifically for that purpose?

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