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TIL Ted “The Unabomber” Kaczynski was a test subject for MK-ULTRA

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nnkP TIL Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
neao7 TIL that Freddie Mercury was diagnosed with AIDS in late April 1987, and not before the famous Live Aid performance, like the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' biopic told.
DQKdD TIL The US National Solar Observatory requires a swimming pool’s worth of ice to be added each night into its tanks so coolant can be distributed through the observatory. The heat is intense enough to rapidly melt metal at the telescope mirror’s focal point
rwnx TIL that King George VI was appalled when the South African government instructed him to only shake hands with white people while on his visit there in 1947. He referred to his South African bodyguards as “the Gestapo”.