With an impending evening engagement to attend to, and with nothing learnt thus far today, I'm clutching at straws. I tried a bit of random fact generation by using this site and going for the 27th category, then the 27th sub-category, and then the 27th fact, but ended up reading about whether you can convert from a front-row to a second-row forward in rugby. The only rugby-based transformation I was ever interested in was moving from playing rugby to not playing rugby, and I managed that ten years ago, so we'll move on. So, to something completely different:
Traditional igloos were built only by Inuits who lived in particular areas of Canada and Greenland, and were used as temporary shelters.
Igloos used for longer-term living were generally much larger, and connected to other buildings by tunnels. They were also lined with whale hides. Some Inuit villages were basically groups of large, interconnecting igloos. That must have been cool. It doesn't seem that igloos are all that prevalent any more - I guess Travelodge have started making inroads into the Arctic already...
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