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TIL Serial killer Ted Bundy was convicted and sentenced to death in large part on the basis of now-discredited forensic bite mark evidence. Though there was other evidence implicating him and he later confessed to the killings anyway, so no one doubts his guilt.

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Brj6L TIL that there is a Japanese animated series based on the life and works of American Songwriter Stephen C. Foster called "Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair," after one of Foster's songs. It ran for 52 episodes in the early 90s.
MeddK TIL that one of the songs from the soundtrack to The Terminator (1984) was co-written by Joe Dolce, who had become famous for writing and performing the comedy song Shaddap You Face a few years earlier. It plays during the scene where the robot attacks Sarah's friend Ginger and her partner.
xVAn7 TIL That there were elephant-sized sloths that lived on the ground as recently as 1500 BC in the islands of the Caribbean, meaning that they lived alongside humans
VBKl8 TIL that Russia is so huge, that it has 11 timezones!! The east and west borders of the country have a time difference of up to 10 hours.
XpVr TIL that psychopaths convicted of murder, rape and violent assaults have distinct brain structure