Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
In 2015, three high school girls wrote a letter to Whitey as part of a school project, and to their shock the former mobster wrote back to them. Guess he's got a lot of free time, huh? Instead of giving them a detailed guide to forming their own criminal empire, he gave them simple advice that can be summarized thusly: "Stay in school, fools." (Source)
As mentioned briefly in Black Mass, Whitey was a participant in the CIA's MK-ULTRA experiments during the 1950s, a series of programs that employed LSD for mind control. We swear this is real and not a weird conspiracy theory. Anyway, Bulger would later claim that these experiments caused him lifelong insomnia. (Source)
Whitey apparently hates the nickname Whitey, instead far preferring the nom de guerre of "Boots" which, frankly, is kind of adorable. (Source)
Unlike most people with the honor of being portrayed by Johnny Depp onscreen, Whitey refused to meet the actor ahead of filming and subsequently railed against the film after release. What, did he expect them to portray him as the good guy? (Source)
Dana White, President of the UFC, had a run-in with Bulger back in the day when the gangster sent some thugs to shake down White's Boston-based boxing gym. No MMA moves were employed that day; White decided skipping town for Las Vegas was the wiser decision.(Source)