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TIL serial killer Ted Bundy escaped not once, but twice from custody after his initial arrest.

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mxyvP TIL that although camels can drink 200 litres of water, they don't store this water in their humps, but instead in their digestion or circulatory system.
vPw1L TIL there is a public Minecraft server dedicated to sharing censored press from countries that may block or skew their media.
OO54 TIL after Myers had completed providing the voice for Shrek, and after an rough cut of the film, he asked to re-record all of his lines in a Scottish accent. It was so good they took $4m worth of animation out and did it again.
wLAB1 TIL about Phossy Jaw, an industrial disease that essentially rotted matchstick workers' bones from the inside out.
R5j41 TIL that the Spanish flu epidemic was especially severe in Alaska, causing 51% of all deaths there in 1918-19. It was particularly severe for the natives, which was one reason a diphtheria outbreak there in 1925 was treated as such an emergency