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TIL Lili’uokalani was the first and only reigning queen in Hawaii for just under 2 years before overthrown by the U.S.

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nea4r Today I learned that there is a restaurant in New York that doesn’t employ professional chefs, instead every day a grandmother from a different country designs a menu that honors her native cuisine
wLbA8 TIL: Smallpox inoculation had been practiced in China, India, Turkey, and East and West Africa, starting as early as 1000 AD. The procedure involved exposing a small wound to pus from the sores of an infected person, to cause a limited infection, which would then provide lifelong immunity.
wL5gJ TIL that there is a fourth wise monkey which isn’t commonly included. “See no evil”, “Hear no evil”, “Speak no evil” and “Do no evil”
BrWae Today I Learned Gary Oldman unsuccessfully applied to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, which welcomed him to try again the following year, but advised him to find something else to do for a living. He has since won an Oscar, Screen Actors Guild Award and numerous other awards.
Zp4Qo TIL that children in ancient China learned to write from "Thousand Character Text", a 1000-word poem where the characters do not repeat and cover everything from philisophy to astrology.