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TIL that in the 1970s the LA Times published an article regarding Oliver, a purported human-chimp hybrid

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780p TIL in 1971, Ted Bundy worked at Seattle’s Suicide Hotline crisis center.
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x6vk7 TIL the first transatlantic telegraph cable was completed in 1858 and it took 2 minutes for a single character to make the journey, the first full message from Queen Victoria taking almost 18 hours to complete.
4LN5 TIL the State Hermitage Museum in Russia has a team of cats that prowl the museum to protect the artwork against rodents. The cats even carry a passport with a photo.
6NvY TIL that as a teenager Vlad the Impaler was a hostage of the Ottoman Turkish Sultan, and learned Turkish during this time. Later, while fighting the Ottomans, Vlad would disguise himself as a Turk, infiltrate and destory a series of fortresses.