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TIL that Halle Berry earned a extra $500,000 to flash her breasts in Swordfish.

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lOGa TIL that Native Americans may have been called Indians not because Europeans thought were from India, but because Columbus remarked on their gentleness and called them “una gente in Dios” (Spanish for “people of God”). The ’s’ was dropped and Indio became Indian.
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