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TIL in 1953, a US Scientist named Frank Olsen was administered LSD without his knowledge as part of the MKULTRA program. A week later, Olsen ended up dead. The CIA claimed Olsen jumped from a hotel window, but later paid the family $750K and a 2nd autopsy revealed he was likely assassinated.

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E1nww TIL that German Reformation leader Martin Luther was extremely antisemitic and advocated forced labor, expulsion, the burning of synagogues, of Jewish schools, and of Jewish books, and even their murder.
awneA TIL sci-fi author Isaac Asimov refused the invitation to friend and famed A.I. pioneer Marvin Minsky’s lab at MIT in the 60s because he was “Writing about really intelligent robots of the future and was sure that if he came and saw the clumsy ones that we were making it would spoil his imagination.”
XxXE TIL that in front of the Embassy of Japan, there is a statue of a small girl staring at it, representing the comfort women who passed away having waited for true apology from Japan.
QJRW9 TIL the Zildjian Company—the world's largest producer of cymbals—was founded in 1623 by Avedis Zildjian, an Armenian alchemist in Constantinople who ended up making a cymbal instead of gold. Now based in Massachusetts, the company is still being run by the 14th generation of Zildjian's descendants.
vEkD TIL in his tepid review of “Groundhog Day” at the time of its release, critic Desson Howe specifically stated the film would “never be designated a national film treasure by the Library of Congress.” In 2006, the film was designated a national film treasure by the Library of Congress.