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TIL that the serial killer known as the “Hillside Strangler”, Kenneth Bianchi, while actively murdering women was also applying to join the ranks of the LAPD and attended several ride alongs with police officers who were searching for the Hillside Strangler.

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vGa8 TIL the vultures in Disney’s ‘The Jungle Book’ were originally meant to be voiced by The Beatles until John Lennon insisted they weren’t “going to sing for Mickey f—ing Mouse”. Still, Disney kept a lot of likeness to the band in the characters.
N7pmM TIL Cremating a single body requires enough fuel to fill two SUV fuel tanks.
VB6Ok TIL that actor Ross Hull (Are You Afraid Of The Dark?) has worked as a weather anchor since 2005.
0B8L TIL the German Reichstag/parliament in 1933 voted to give Hitler absolute control. 1 person spoke against it:Social Democratic leader Otto Wels, who spoke the last free words in the Reichstag:“You can take our lives & our freedom, but you cannot take our honor. We are defenseless but not honorless.”
OorZ6 TIL the last known living survivor of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Matilda McCrear, was abducted from Nigeria at the age of two and died in Selma, Alabama in 1940