Excrement of the Stars
Podcast |
Endless Thread
Publisher |
Reddit
WBUR
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Apr 01, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:38:55

Thousands of years ago, a massive meteoroid seared through the Earth’s atmosphere and split into fragments over Greenland. Its pieces were later used for toolmaking by the Inughuit that inhabited northwestern Greenland. In other words: Inughuit people used space knives.

This fact, featured in a viral Reddit post on r/todayilearned, spurred an Endless Thread deep dive into a forgotten history of American exploration and exploitation abroad.

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