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TIL Clint Eastwood helped finance a private mission in 1981 into Laos to see if there were still American POWs alive.

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4XWmo TIL that North Korea kidnapped a South Korean director and actor and forced them to make films for them. They eventually claimed asylum at the US embassy and moved to the US.
eXY4 TIL the first cloned pet was cat was named CC, short for Copy Cat
wvZY TIL the Temple University Owls mascot was chosen because Temple began as a night school for young people of limited means
X0jZD TIL Russian emperor Alexander I offered to mediate an ending to the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain in Saint Petersburg, but the British rejected it by never showing up.
OoY4e TIL Panthers are not a species, Panther is just the name given to any melanistic (dark or black) big cat e.g. black jaguars.