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TIL that Osama Bin Laden had the "Charlie Bit My Finger" video in his computer's audio/visual collection

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wLOR6 TIL that there is a very rare and special type of gemstone that can only be found and formed in fossils of extinct species of cephalopods over the process of hundreds of millions of years. The most expensive opal in the world is one of these being an opalized fossil valued at over $1,000,000.
6E4MQ TIL that German film director Werner Herzog nearly took LANSA Flight 508, but canceled at the last minute. The plane was struck by lightning, killing 91 of 92 crew members and passengers. The lone survivor was 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke, whose story was told in Herzog's documentary Wings of Hope.
VKl0 TIL DLP projectors use up to 8 million hinged microscopic mirrors that can each move independently up to 10,000 times per second!
w8eP TIL that After Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchhill stated in his diary that the war had just been won.
VNk4 TIL: Some lakes are stocked with fish by dropping hundreds of fish out of an airplane flying over.