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TIL a woman was commissioned to write a book about a presumed serial killer in Washington while the killer’s identity was unknown. That killer turned out to be Ted Bundy, a close friend and former coworker of the writer

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P1XlE TIL that Mary Anning, a pioneering fossil collector, was excluded from scientific societies because she was a working-class woman, yet many leading scientists relied on her expertise and fossils.
0dew1 TIL that the youngest person to ever achieve nuclear fusion was just 12-years-old.
8jeb TIL that during a battle of the Korean War, a mortar section was running out of mortar rounds. Instead of ordering more rounds, they accidentally ordered hundreds of crates of Tootsie Rolls, having not specified that “tootsie rolls” was a slang term for mortar rounds.
Rkn8 TIL that composer Charles Ives proposed that a 20th Amendment should be added to the U.S. Constitution that allowed people to submit legislative proposals to Congress. Members of Congress would then cull the proposals, selecting 10 each year as referendums for popular vote by the nation’s electorate
vVEL TIL Nestle Corporation owns Stouffers, Lean Pockets, Hot Pockets, Lean Cuisine, Tombstone pizzas, Jacks pizza, DiGiorno, and California Pizza Kitchen