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TIL that Morgan Spurlock (“Super Size Me”) released a documentary in 2008, “Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?”, in which he correctly deduced that bin Laden was hiding in Abbotabad, Pakistan. After bin Laden’s death, it was revealed that he had a copy of the documentary in his video collection.

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