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TIL that in 1977, serial killer Ted Bundy was allowed to appear in court without handcuffs or leg shackles because he was serving as his own attorney. He used that freedom to escape by jumping out of a second-story courthouse window.

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awNLN TIL Popeye was actually a member of the U.S. Coast Guard until he enlisted in the Navy in the 1941 cartoon "The Mighty Navy" and other related shorts due to World War II. He would remain in his U.S. Navy uniform until 1978 with the exception of retaining the standard issue Navy "Dixie Cup" cap.
MeVGV TIL the Latin choral part in the Mr. Bean theme song is "Ecce homo qui est faba", which translates to "Behold the man who is a bean"
479o TIL that White Coke was a colorless, unlabeled variant of Coca-Cola developed to look like vodka for Soviet Marshall Zhukov, who was introduced to Coke by Dwight Eisenhower during WWII but did not want to be seen drinking a symbol of American imperialism during the Cold War
lXw1 TIL Some jazz musicians in the 40s converted to Islam to get around segregation problems. “If you join the Muslim faith, you ain’t colored no more, you’ll be white”
oPWA TIL McDonald’s is one of the leading contributors to deforestation in the Amazon and uses questionable tactics to do so.