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TIL of David Shaw, who upon breaking 4 diving world records at Bushman’s Hole, South Africa, discovered the body of a fellow diver from 10 years prior and died himself on a subsequent trip to retrieve the body

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JMlV TIL that one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims managed to temporarily escape. He was found naked, drugged and bleeding from his rectum on a street corner. Dahmer convinced police that the boy was his boyfriend and that they had had an argument. The boy was returned to Dhamer and was murdered that night.
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