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TIL there were two serial killers in the USA with the last name of Bundy

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5gyB TIL Ray Bradbury wrote a short story where a time traveling safari hunter accidentally crushes a butterfly under his boot in the Cretaceous period, thereby changing the course of history millions of years later. He wrote the story two decades before the term “Butterfly Effect” first came into use.
VwB TIL there is an elephant named Tarra who lost her best friend, a dog named Bella, to a band of coyotes. Finding the body, she moved her friend more than a mile from the scene, taking her back home.
LkO0p TIL Aloha Wanderwell was the first woman to drive around the world, befriended Chinese bandits, captured the first footage of the Bororo tribe, and disguised herself as a man to pray in Mecca.
oBkaW TIL about Daniel Lambert (1770 – 1809), a prison guard and animal breeder who was the largest man in recorded history during his lifetime. He once fought a bear in the streets, and became so poor that he was forced to put himself on display.
p8AJ4 TIL that the 1872 campaign is the only presidential election in which a major party's nominee died during the election process. Though incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant had already won by a landslide, his unsuccessful opponent, Horace Greeley, died before the result could formally be finalized.