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Today I learned that the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy once rescued a child from drowning.

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jNvgE TIL about "The Lion House" in Gorongosa, Mozambique. When humans abandoned this safari lodge, the lions took over. Gorongosa became a national park in 1960.
rRQYw TIL that dogs hide their food to have for later. I’ve been giving my dog pigs ears as treats and found them all hidden in the yard underneath gras/dirt. Apparently it’s an instinct that can kick in from time to time.
OogK7 TIL that aerial dogfights were fought with pistols before they figured out how to properly install machine guns into planes.
rjOx TIL in 2000 a Korean couple spent their life savings to bring a Pan Am 747 to Seoul and set it up as a restaurant. The restaurant failed, leaving the couple living in a hut below the airplane. The 747 was torn down for scrap metal in 2010.
Wk6PA TIL that the most accepted heir of the defunct Imperial Throne of Russia is also a decendent of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Both thrones were lost as an effect of World War 1.