Monday

Yukon

In 1955, the company that makes Quaker Oats paid $1,000 for a 7.7-hectare piece of land in the Canadian Yukon, divided it into 21 million, 1-inch pieces and offered deeds to those pieces in 21 million boxes of puffed wheat and rice. The Canadian government seized the land in 1965 for failure to pay $32.20 in taxes.

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