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TIL In the 1950s and 60s, a Montreal hospital subjected psychiatric patients to electroshocks, drug-induced sleep and huge doses of LSD on behalf of the CIA's pursuit of mind control. It was part of MK ultra

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loYNG TIL the British invented the "toast sandwich" which is literally a sandwich with buttered toast as the filling. A 1861 recipe suggests adding salt and pepper to taste, and that it "will be found very tempting to the appetite of an invalid."
5VDEk TIL according to the customs of the Toraja people of Indonesia, the family of a dead person must sacrifice a buffalo. Families that don't already have one or too poor to afford buying a buffalo just assume their dead relatives are just "sick" until they can afford to sacrifice a buffalo.
xVBv5 TIL that Charging Bull, the famous statue on Wall Street, was installed secretly and illegally outside the New York Stock Exchange in 1989 following the 1987 stock market crash. The sculpture was seized and impounded by NYPD, but re-installed two blocks south of the Exchange after a public outcry.
QJ11L TIL about the Nazino Tragedy where 6,000 people were deported from the Soviet Union to an island where there was no food, shelter, or water. Within 13 weeks, over 4,000 died or disappeared and signs of cannibalism was present on some of the bodies.
5VrAQ TIL that Rhode Island only ratified the Constitution after the newly-formed U.S. Senate passed a bill that would have placed a trade embargo on it.