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TIL that after Ted Bundy's initial arrest, police searched his apartment but missed a collection of Polaroid photos of his victims. He was then released because of insufficient evidence, and he immediately went home and destroyed the photo collection.

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e0X04 TIL that in 2014, a Nigerian motorcyclist discovered what is now known as the Ibadan Forest of Horror - a site where 20 decomposing human remains and hundreds of human skulls were uncovered, in what is believed to have been ritualistic killings. 20 people were found alive.
wKB6 TIL in the 1960s the New York based Anarchist group “Black Mask” disrupted cultural events by handing out made up flyers of art events to the homeless with the lure of free drinks
xVa90 TIL Of the Dunning-Kruger effect. A cognitive bias in the field of psychology that defines a person so stupid that they can't truly understand how stupid they are, so they end up believing they're intelligent, and usually intellectually superior to those around them.
E1aQP TIL The Kuleshov effect is a film editing (montage) effect demonstrated by Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s. It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.
Vbpm TIL that there is a town in northern Kazakhstan where residents fall into a deep sleep for up to 6 days at a time. No abnormal radiation or gas levels have been detected and to this day, no one knows why.