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

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bLMZ TIL In 1988, Ken Griffey Jr attempted suicide by swallowing 277 aspirin pills. On his failed attempt, Griffey, Jr. stated, “It seemed like everyone was yelling at me in baseball, then I came home and everyone was yelling at me there. I got depressed. I got angry. I didn’t want to live.”
DGgP TIL Google wraps its undersea fiber optic cables in Kevlar to protect them from shark bites.
e0kY4 TIL it is illegal in Virginia to have sex if you are unmarried
OGPPY TIL back in the day teenage boys wanted to fuck their teachers
oBPQo TIL of "Alice in Wonderland Syndrome" in which patients have visual hallucinations in which they see objects around them distorted in size and shape. Lewis Carroll is thought to have suffered from it while he wrote his novels.