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TIL Horses in herds will often have a “guard horse” stand watch while others lay down to sleep

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1aALD TIL Skinny Puppy, a Canadian band sent a bill to the US military requesting $666,000 in royalties for playing their music as torture for Guantanamo Bay's prisoners.
91Am TIL That the CIA secretly tested LSD on American citizens because they believed the communists were using it as a method of mind control, and didn’t want to fall behind in developing the technology.
4X0yw TIL that the British government admits to undertaking aerial release trials against it's own people, in an attempt to understand the spread of possible biological attacks
wLgKY TIL that the Free French forces that liberated Paris in WW2 were pre-selected to be completely white, despite colored soldiers making up a majority of the Free French forces. Both the US and UK demanded their exclusion from the liberation.
nXX7 TIL the world’s oldest choir, in Germany, has survived the Thirty Years War, the plague, and both the Nazi and Communist regimes to mark their 801st anniversary this year.