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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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mxXKM TIL that in 1981 the band Rush released a vinyl called "Rush 'N' Roulette." A unique mastering process allows the chance of any of the 6 featured songs to be played.
PYjeL TIL that back in 2010, a man named Jon McLoone ran 15 million computer simulation of the game Hangman and found out that the most difficult word for that program to guess is "Jazz".
PYWGV TIL about the Clade X, a pandemic simulation conducted by the Johns Hopkins Center. The result revealed that the United States was not prepared for severe pandemics. The players included a former Senate leader and onetime Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief
m1wRp TIL that wearing a neck tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 7.5% on average
ERA7 TIL a store refused to decorate a 3 yr old child’s cake with “Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler!” The public attention from his father’s outrage at this refusal expedited his removal from the home. The father no longer has custody of any of his 9 children due to “instability” and lack of court compliance.