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TIL that Ted Bundy worked briefly at a suicide hotline in Seattle in 1971 and met Ann Rule while volunteering there. Ann Rule later wrote The Stranger Beside Me, a true-crime book about Bundy.

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R5Dl9 TIL - The device reconnaissance aircraft use to measure the yield of a nuclear weapon is called a "bhangmeter."
neEVP TIL that MRI of dogs revealed that dogs prioritize the smell of their owners above anything as dog owners' aroma causes an activation activation in the "reward center" of their brains, called the caudate nucleus.
PYa8J TIL that Maya Angelou became San Francisco's first black streetcar conductor at age 16. When asked why she wanted the job, she replied, "I like the uniforms. I like people."