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TIL Ken Kesey (Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) volunteered for MKUltra experiments involving LSD and other psychedelic drugs as a student, and inspired him to promote the drug outside of the experiments, which influenced the early development of hippie culture.

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