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TIL about Mary Bell an 11 year old girl who murdered two small boys in cold blood.

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8adBa TIL the CIA paid magician John Mulholland $3,000 to write a spy manual of trickery and deception as part of the top-secret MKUltra project, a CIA program that investigated mind control. Mulholland’s 1953 guide was supposed to be destroyed in the 1970s but an archived copy reappeared decades later.
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