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TIL that at age 16 Ted Kaczysnki was a student at Harvard, where he underwent devastating psychological torture as part of the CIA’s MKUltra “mind control” program. Today, we know Kaczynski as The Unabomber.

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yVLAw TIL in 1861, Abraham Lincoln suspended “the writ of habeas corpus” which gave military authorities the power to arrest and hold Union dissenters without indictment or arraignment.
KDya TIL the Queen of England is married to her cousin
eGoL TIL of “Shifting Baseline Syndrome”, where each generation uses previous reference points as baselines despite those points representing significant changes from even earlier states. Each generation defines the “natural” state differently, and large changes over time often go unnoticed.
M7Yo0 TIL that Monrovia, the capital of Liberia in West Africa, is the second national capital to be named after a US president (James Monroe), apart from Washington DC. It also is the only national capital named after a leader of a different country.
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