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TIL Anderson Cooper was a college intern at the CIA

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RRa6 TIL that in 1914 Ford doubled workers’ wages voluntarily to reduce employee turnover and improve productivity.
lonMG TIL Senator Joe McCarthy was a heroin addict in his later years, and the US government paid for his heroin
lNeA TIL George Lucas gave Mel Brooks his blessing to make Spaceballs on the condition that no action figures be made, as they could be confused with actual Star Wars toys.
mxnKp TIL between 33K and 55K Canadians fought in the American Civil War. 29 were awarded Medals of Honor, one was a noted Union Spy, and one was a Union Army officer who formed and led the detachment that captured and killed John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Lincoln.
dDZpr TIL Edgar Allen Poe was inspired to write his famous poem 'The Raven' by an actual, taxidermized raven that was once owned by Charles Dickens. it is now on display in the the Free Library of Philadelphia.