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TIL of an illegal program, called ‘Project Mkultra’ , conducted by the CIA on American and Canadian human subjects, with the goal of developing drugs and procedures to force confessions through mind control, interrogation, and torture.

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j6PyX TIL Eating overcooked/burnt food doesn't have an established/quantitative link to increased cancer risk, contrary to what many of us have heard, since childhood. On the contrary, processed foods like bacon or salami increase the risk, regardless of how they're cooked
R7wwj TIL politician Stacey Abrams writes romance novels under the pen name Selena Montogomery, and has sold 100,000 copies.
OGVOY TIL that professional tetherball is a real thing.
ov5L TIL that an Oregon farmer successfully grew a tomacco plant that gave off fruit for 18 months.
kAJ7 TIL that rice thrown at weddings poses absolutely no danger to birds.