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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.
jaVp TIL that the dog breed Komondors use Dreadlocks to protect against Wolf bites
8epOX TIL The King James Version Bible didn't exist for most of Shakespeares life, and came out only 5 years before he died.
Yx1d TIL Disney studios used a multiplane camera which moves a number of pieces of artwork painted on glass past the camera at various speeds and at various distances from one another to create a three-dimensional effect.
VBwLQ TIL that the son of Gravity movie director released a short that tells the real “sad” story behind Sandra Bullock’s character stranded in space connecting with an Eskimo shepherd and his dogs on Earth.