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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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Exlx TIL that Gandhi advocated Great Britain to surrender to Hitler and Mussolini. “If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will let them… you will allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered.”
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