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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.

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9YMgp TIL That in 1966, during his second stint in jail, Charles Manson refused release and requested to stay in prison. He’d spent half of his 32 years behind bars, and saw it as his home. Authorities refused and released him. He quickly formed the family.
QNdOE TIL that Lucifer by Franz von Stuck, A painting that depicts Lucifer The fallen angel once terrified ministers of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, who made the sign of the cross upon first sight of the fallen archangel.
BgX1D TIL A school had a mascot named after a racial slur, and some people are still mad when the school changed the mascot.
R5wP4 TIL about the poem The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenite, that shows the irregularities of the English language pronunciation.
e0B6g TIL that the Cullinan - the biggest diamond ever found - was shipped by ordinary mail while a fake stone was shipped by sea heavily protected by security personnel