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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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JYDM4 TIL that in 1823, Gregor MacGregor created a national currency and flag of the fictional republic of Poyais and got 250 investor colonists to buy land and travel across the world to a jungle island where most of them died.
78rQP TIL of 'Truck Wages' or 'Company Scrip, where an employer will pay employees in company minted money that is only redeemable in company owned stores. It is referenced in the sea shanty 'Wellerman' and the last company to get sued for using it was Walmart Mexico.
0wlJp TIL in 1687 John Moore, a Black man living in England, bought his way into the elite body of the City of York, granting him the right to bear arms, fish in the city's rivers, and graze his animals on the city's meadows. He remains the only Black person awarded the Freedom of the City of York
kv7B TIL that one company, IAC/InterActiveCorp, has spun off the Home Shopping Network and Ticketmaster, aqcuired About.com, and currently owns 150 online services such as Ask.com, Match.com, OkCupid, CollegeHumor, Vimeo, Newsweek, The Daily Beast and Thesaurus.com.
VWlm TIL there is a species of orchid which produces a narcotic nectar to cause a drug addiction in their wasp pollinators.