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TIL The Statue of Liberty was originally meant to celebrate America’s abolition of slavery

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64vZ TIL Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was among twenty-two Harvard students subjected to “horrific experiments” conducted as part of the secret CIA project MKUltra, the same project that produced LSD and whose goal was mind control.
wLQDE TIL that musician Moby claimed in his second memoir to have been in a relationship with actress Natalie Portman when she was 18. Portman denied it, saying “my recollection is a much older man being creepy with me when I just had graduated high school.” Moby canceled his book tour and apologized.
ZGEv TIL that in Russia, a stray cat named Masha kept a three month old baby warm in below-freezing temperatures and refused to leave its side when it was taken to the hospital, the baby lived.
OoW5X TIL that Vincent Speranza made a beer run for a wounded buddy during the battle of the bulge that became a legend in Belgium and he did not find out until 65 years later
ZpaYv TIL The song 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton is rooted to the 9to5 movement in which secretaries and working women stood up for their rights to be treated equal in the workplace