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VXVm TIL: In the the movie “Coming to America” (1988), the two hobos Eddie Murphy hands money to are the greedy traders (Mortimer and Randolph) that go broke in his previous movie “Trading Places”(1983)
WkWl4 TIL the concept of private property was unknown to ancient Hawaiians. Instead they had "ahupua'a", a belief system that connected spirituality into the natural landscape. It emphasized the interrelationship of elements and beings and honored them in the activities of daily and seasonal life.
VBRAZ TIL of the "Dukling" - the last of Hong Kong's original junks (east asian sailing vessel that uses bamboo battens to reinforce its sails, giving it a rib like appearance), still sails
dDvmQ TIL that in 1885 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers used 300,000 pounds of explosives to annihilate Flood Rock island in New York City's East River as part of clearing Hell Gate for safer navigation. It's been described as "the largest planned explosion before testing began for the atomic bomb".
9YJgX TIL 50 to 85 percent of oxygen on Earth comes from the ocean, mainly from phytoplankton.