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TIL Osama Bin Laden played Volleyball, And was apparently really good at it too

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Z1WR TIL James Cameron made the movie Titanic to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make the movie.
G4w4 TIL Tom Hardy (Bane) said that the most difficult parts of the The Dark Knight Rises to shoot were the fight scenes. Not because of the physicality of them, but because he was such a huge Batman fan growing up that he said “it felt like I was beating up my childhood hero.”
4eE5 TIL that the planet Saturn radiates 2.5 times more energy into space than it receives from the Sun.
GZvQ TIL that Mark Twain gave a lecture on Masturbation in which he poked fun at those who shunned the practice by making up quotes such as, “Homer, in the second book of the Iliad, says with fine enthusiasm, “Give me masturbation or give me death!”
0yJN TIL George Washington died when his doctors tried to cure his epiglottitis (i.e. inflamed throat) with blood letting. He lost more than half his blood before they stopped the treatment, and died just hours later.