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TIL At 8 years old, during a chicken dinner with family,Jeffrey Dahmer expressed a curiosity to his father of how to bleach chicken bones. His chemist father was proud of his son’s scientific curiosity so he showed him how to safely bleach and preserve the bones, which he used on his later victims

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