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TIL Ted Bundy wore turtlenecks to cover a mole on his neck that would have made it easier to identify him as the perpetrator in crimes

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XEPQ6 TIL Contrary to popular lore, there was no epidemic of suicides in the wake of the Stock Market Crash of 1929. One contemporary reference to the myth was written by a British reporter who had been very badly burned in the market himself, the reporter’s name was Winston Churchill.
8eAp8 TIL in 1955, a unmanned plane took off from a small aerodrome near Sydney and flew for over 2 hours over the city. Two squadrons of Air Force planes were failed to shoot it down, including one with a guy hanging out of the cockpit with a Bren gun. It was finally shot down by a third RAAF squadron.
16VGX TIL about Yang Jingyu: a Chinese resistance leader who fought the Japanese during WWil. Yang was encircled & killed after 5 days of fighting alone in the wild. An autopsy found only bark and grass roots in his stomach. His desecrated body was later given a proper burial due to fear of his ghost.
X0DRQ TIL that Helga Estby made a bet for $10000 that she could walk across the United States to save their farm. After she and her daughter did so, she received no money and found that two of her children had died in the meantime.
woJl7 TIL of the Indo-Greek Kingdom, a survival of Alexander the Great's empire around modern day Pakistan that was isolated from it's Mediterranean homeland from the Parthian Persians and would survive the Roman conquest of the rest of the Greek world into our Common Era