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Did you know? : Past editions

Access past editions of Did you know?:

  • How to Build an Igloo
  • They Grow Bananas in Iceland
  • The North Magnetic Pole's on the Move 
  • In Antarctica there's a place named after a Canadian snowmobile 
  • Scottish music:  part of Inuit life for over a century 
  • Spiders North of 60 
  • The 1933 Baffin Bay Earthquake
  • The Mighty Lemming
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