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TIL infamous Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger was fed LSD daily by the CIA while in prison

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Wk144 TIL about Sybil Ludington, a 16 year-old girl who rode to alert militia forces on the night of April 26, 1777, and who, reportedly, rode twice the distance as Paul Revere.
w46o TIL chicken was considered a luxury food in the United States until the discovery of vitamin D in 1922, allowing chickens to thrive indoors and during the winter season.
W7N19 TIL that since 1953, a Italian regional bank called Credito Emiliano has accepted giant wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese as collateral for small-business loans. Besides holding the cheese as insurance, the bank stores and ages the wheels in climate-controlled vaults for the duration of the loan.
6W5m TIL about a place in Canada called Cape Breton where Scottish descendants still speak Gaelic, and they sent musicians to Scotland to teach the Scottish how to play traditional music
wekJ TIL there is a registered satirical party in Germany named “The Party”(politically). Their youth organisation is the “Hintner Jugend”. Their goals are to rebuild the Berlin Wall, a CEO quota for lazy people and making the tax system even more complicated (among others).