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TIL that Ted Bundy was known to be a very helpful person. In addition to working at a suicide prevention hotline, he saved a three year old boy from drowning in 1970 - around the same time he began his killing spree.

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4Qg6 TIL Your eye’s pupil got its name from Latin “Pupilla”, which means little doll. Because that’s what you see when you look into someones pupil, the little doll version of yourself.
JYayj TIL Bill Gates, since 2007, has given away 48% of his net worth (roughly $28 billion dollars), which has helped save 6 million lives.
4QGR TIL The scene in Spiderman (2002) where Peter Parker catches Mary Jane’s tray in the school cafeteria does not have any CGI. The whole thing was actually done by Tobey Maguire himself. It took him 156 takes to get it perfectly.
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