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TIL in 1971, Ted Bundy worked at Seattle’s Suicide Hotline crisis center.

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V8rZ TIL that HP Lovecraft wrote nearly 100,000 letters in his lifetime, the second most number of letters written by anyone in recorded history; the first was French writer Voltaire. Lovecraft said, “I write [letters] exactly as easily and as rapidly as I would utter the same topics in conversation.”
wolQ6 TIL General George S. Patton saved several children from drowning when they fell off a yacht during a boating trip off Salem, Massachusetts in 1923. He was a still a major at that time and was awarded the Silver Lifesaving Medal for this action.
BgNrD TiL that in the early 70's, the cannabis strain "Acapulco Gold" was so popular at Columbia University that the college had a dedicated smuggling route via Austin, Texas.
9w70Q TIL, The only letter not used in the Periodic Table is the letter J.
LyP TIL John Pemberton’s original recipe for Coca-Cola was both alcoholic and contained cocaine, and when forced to change in 1886, he accidentally added the carbonated water to base syrup.