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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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RRe6 TIL a NASA intern stole moon rocks from a vault and had sex on them with his girlfriend.
E1Wjx Today I Learned How Dumb America Is!
YWax TIL that Nick Frost lost his sister at an early age, his mother died from a stroke, and he lost his home. Years later while he worked as a waiter at a resteraunt, he met Simon Pegg, they became best friends, and then they made Shaun of the Dead, which kickstarted his career
Loxm TIL The oldest soft drink in the world still being sold is actually Schweppes lemonade. It predates Vernor’s by 31 years.
OoOae TIL that a USSR physicist published his equations for solving reflected electromagnetic waves from surfaces, as the Soviet authorities considered them insignificant for military purposes. His work was found by Lockheed in the 1970s, leading to a breakthrough in developing their stealth plane F-117.