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TIL That Ted Bundy helped detectives by giving his perspective as a serial killer to help capture Gary Ridgeway, The Green River Killer.

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awXv0 TIL the radiation levels in the US Capital Building are 55 times higher than the permissible levels of radiation exposure allowed by the EPA at the outer-most perimeters of nuclear power plants. Essentially, if the Capitol building were a nuclear facility, it would fail a safety examination.
woV0W TIL That the reason everything around you seems so quiet when there's snow on the ground is because snow absorbs up to 60% of all noise
yQERw TIL that Vietnam War medics formed the core of early EMS. Their training and experience were needed, as many first responders in the 60s were undertrained funeral home workers. So, those wounded in combat actually had a better chance of survival than those getting into car accidents in the US.
p8M7O TIL Al Pacino improvised the look of his character Big Boy Caprice in 1990's Dick Tracy
nBPW TIL that the Egyptian word for cat is Mau, and is pronounced ‘Meow’