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TIL prevailing local lore credits the Shaka to Hamana Kalili who lost the three middle fingers of his right hand while working at a sugar mill. Kalili was then shifted to guarding the sugar train, and his all-clear wave is said to have evolved into the shaka as children imitated the gesture.

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