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TIL Operation Midnight Climax was a program by the CIA in the mid 50s that used prostitutes to lure unsuspecting men to apartments in New York and San Francisco to drug them with LSD to test whether the combination of sex and LSD might influence the men to reveal information the government wanted.

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yQlvM TIL HMS Porcupine was blown in half by a German torpedo, the two halves were towed back to the UK and recommissioned as two ships; HMS Pork and HMS Pine
ZmRG TIL that people who score high on ‘openness’ in psychological tests are the most likely to feel chills when they listen to music.
8a5Za TIL that shark skin is not soft, but feel more like sandpaper.
wmnM TIL Al-Qaeda attacks financed by $500,000 cost the US more than $500 billion
VMKE0 TIL that audience participation became an integral part of The Rocky Horror Picture Show after an audience member by the name of Louis Farese, Jr. began making snarky comments during a 1976 screening of the film.