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TIL The Unabomber was a subject in CIA MK Ultra experiments at Harvard that may have shaped his personality for his future bombings

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X0wl8 TIL: Slaves were sometimes lottery prizes in the past. An example was when Bernard Moore, in quick need of cash, divided his estate into 124 prizes and sold 1840 lottery tickets. You could win a slave, 10 cows, a house, a forge, mill, or wagon. The slaves were the cheapest prizes.
dlo8 TIL 48% of men rated emotional dissatisfaction as the primary reason they cheated on their spouse. While only 12% of cheating men said their mistress was more physically attractive than their wife.
O55X TIL that to become a man in the Etoro tribe of New Guinea, you must perform oral sex on your father or other village elders, and swallow their semen
Ya0A TIL that while in the Congo, “James Jameson, heir to an Irish whiskey manufacturer, bought an eleven-year old girl and offered her to cannibals in order to document and sketch how she was cooked and eaten.”
v1yQK TIL that a serial killer won ABC's "The Dating Game" while in the midst of his killing spree.