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TIL that serial killer Ted Bundy helped police catch Gary Ridgway, the "Green River Killer". In 1984, Bundy offered his opinions on the psychology, motivations, and behavior of the killer, and that he was revisiting body dump sites, which turned out to be true. Ridgway was arrested in 2001.

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Lg7V TIL Quentin Tarantino set out to film Reservoir Dogs with a $30,000 budget and a 16mm camera. Tarantino received a message from Harvey Keitel who wanted to help produce and star in the film. Keitel helped raise the budget to $1.5 million.
nWo57 TIL: In the 1960s, MIT helped the US military to launch a cloud of 1.4 billion inch long antennas into orbit, totaling a length of 15,909 miles in length.
j8EN TIL that in 1987, there were only 22 California Condors left on the planet. All of them were caught to help preserve the species, and now there are 435 birds, 237 of which are in the wild.
0wxO5 TIL: Swing music never really fell out of popularity, it was shut down by ASCAP in 1941. ASCAP demanded more royalties from broadcasters- they refused. ASCAP banned their repertoire and demanded preapproval of set lists and written solos for live broadcasts. This effectively ended the Swing Era.
VgN0 TIL in 1994, Actor Jack Nicholson got out of his car and smashed the windshield of another Driver’s Mercedes with a golf club for “cutting him off”. Nicholson reportedly offered an apology and a $500K check that successfully ended any criminal prosecution for the road-rage incident.