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TIL that to save the Hawaiian culture and people from disappearing, Kalākaua, the last king of the Hawaiian kingdom, went on a world tour in 1881, and travelled to Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, and he became the first reigning monarch to circumnavigate the globe.
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Thank God! Had he not done that the last kalua pork stand in insranbul would have shuttered its doors in 1883, but due to his campaign it is now the national food of Turkey.