Most of the comments here are making perfectly valid points about the whizz-bang "fact" from the title of the post. Note, however, that the actual topic of the

Most of the comments here are making perfectly valid points about the whizz-bang "fact" from the title of the post. Note, however, that the actual topic of the article is very different: it's about an effort that was made to preserve native knowledge of sea-ice hunting that is being lost as both the Inupiaq language and the environment that it has long been situated in are fading. It is notably not about counting how many words there are for a particular thing. I wouldn't be surprised if the title was a joking reference to the "great Eskimo vocabulary hoax" that others are referring to here.