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TIL the CIA once paid prostitutes to lure individuals into monitored safe houses in New York, San Francisco, & Marin. The prostitutes then gave their clients LSD and other substances while the CIA watched through one way glass.

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EgO5x TIL That Saudi Arabia Bought an Injection that Costs($2.1m) Just to Treat a Young Girl Diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) for Free.
JYA94 TIL King Richard the Lionheart of England couldn't speak English and spent very little time in England.
VMd48 TIL that Stephen Fry accused catholic Poles of aiding the Nazis to kill Jews in Auschwitz. .
m1kRY TIL in 1980, following a 1978 referendum, Switzerland was Europe's "time island" by delaying Daylight Saving Time until 1981, resulting in a unique six-month period where it lagged an hour behind its neighbors, excluding Liechtenstein, until the Federal Council mandated alignment.
D1Xdr TIL of the John Frum movement; a cargo cult on the island of Tanna, Vanuatu. Said to have originated in the 1930s following a vision of a Western figure promising prosperity, it gained traction in the early 1940s when 300,000 US troops were stationed in the area. This meant huge amounts of supplies.