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TIL someone developed a method to secretly communicate with people on LSD

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DEyr TIL Thomas Edison abandoned his research into x-rays when he damaged his eyesight, and his assistant had his arms amputated from repeated exposure. “Don’t talk to me about X-rays,” he said. “I am afraid of them.”
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