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TIL that the CIA's analysis of Osama bin Laden's PC found a “fairly extensive” hentai collection, a Steam account with Counter-Strike, FFVII, and Animal Crossing, as well as 28 crochet tutorial videos among 174GB of mostly-western entertainment

VM6p0 TIL Johnny Cash wrote 'I Walk the Line' as a proclamation of fidelity to his first wife, Vivian Liberto, after being met with temptation while on tour with Elvis Presley.
OopJ7 TIL Janis Joplin was bullied by former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson in high school. Even in a 1992 interview, 22 years after Janis’ death, he couldn’t stop bragging about it as he implied groping her: ‘… she never wore any panties… from what I understood’
JYrrB TIL about Raven Wilkinson, the first African-American ballet dancer of a major ballet company. In 1957, Raven was once barred from staying with her troupe when an Atlanta hotel owner asked her outright if she was black. Raven quit dancing for a time, only to return to a 27 year career at NYC Opera.
5Ydr8 TIL Stephen Hawking’s ashes are buried beneath a memorial stone inscribed with his equation for the Hawking temperature of black holes. To commemorate his death, Hawking’s own words were beamed towards the nearest known black hole to Earth, about 3,500 light years away, by the European Space Agency
4XO8X TIL that Henry IV demanded a ransom of 150,000 marks for the release of Richard the Lionheart. Richard's brother John and the King of France offered 80,000 marks to keep him imprisoned.