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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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LQWlv TIL that alcohol-based hand sanitizers don’t kill norovirus, the highly contagious “winter vomiting disease” that sickens 685 million people per year.
69pW8 TIL that Sam Houston is the only person to have served as the governor of 2 U.S. states, with him serving as the 6th governor of Tennessee from 1827-1829, and as the 7th governor of Texas from 1859-1861.
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yQ6gV TIL almost 10% of all the concrete used in the WW2 German Atlantic Wall went on the fortification of the tiny Channel islands. The 1944 allied invasion of France simply ignored them, finally liberating them in May 1945.