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TIL The CIA ran a study of LSD that lasted over 20 years and ruined many civilian lives

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rk5o TIL there was a made-for-TV Gilligan’s Island movie featuring the Harlem Globetrotters playing a team of robots
E145o TIL that the human body literally emits light (like fireflies do), but 1/1000 times the sensitivity of naked eyes.The light emission is rhythmatic and peaks at 4 pm.
69YAm TIL during a soccer match in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a lightning strike killed all 11 members of the opposing team. The home team came out unharmed.
6XKX TIL Martin Van Buren left the Democratic party and ran for president in 1848 for the Free Soil party, an anti-slavery and “true democratic” party
9wLO6 TIL about Lizzie Cyr, a prostitute whose lawyer (John Cameron) claimed that the female magistrate on the case was unfit to judge as women were not considered people under Canadian law in 1928. The case led to females finally being declared people by the British privy council.