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XE6K6 TIL despite having killed Captain James Cook for kidnapping their chief, the Hawaiians treated Cook's body as if he was a Chief also, giving him royal funeral rights and turning his bones into a religious icon akin to that of medieval saint relics.
woGGW TIL that during the United States occupation of Haiti in 1914, the equivalent of over $14m in today’s money in gold assets, were seized from Haiti and transferred to National City Bank in New York.
4XvGg TIL: Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, who is often portrayed as the epitome of Mexican machismo, never drank alcohol. He actually was so worried about alcoholism spreading in Mexico, that he banned alcohol from his province of Chihuahua.
VBRM4 TIL Sally Field's mother was discovered by a talent scout on a street corner and put under contract by Paramount Pictures. She starred in the 1951 sci-fi classic "The Man From Planet X" and appeared in dozens of TV shows.
XEy7D TIL why noses run when it's cold out. Lungs are irritated by cold and dry air, so the nose gets more blood to keep it warm, and secretes more liquid to increase the humidity of the air you breathe in.