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TIL that a Japanese ship crashed on the Washington coast in 1833, its sailors were captured by Native Americans and enslaved before being freed by the intervention of the Hudson Bay Company

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OGaOX TIL that in 1959, the Art Gallery of Ontario crowdfunded the purchase of a Tintoretto, allowing people to "buy" a square inch of the painting for $10