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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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Eo40 TIL Google created a free service that you could call for telephone directory searches. The catch? Its sole purpose was to collect voice samples and was shut down once enough were collected
Bgw9K TIL that Nova Scotia is Latin for New Scotland because the first European colonists there were Scottish. So New England is next to New Scotland.
oyn7 TIL a man in Taiwan was mauled by a lion after he jumped into their enclosure with a bible in an attempt to convert them to Christianity.
JPm4 TIL Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, the civil war general involved in the early Ku Klux Klan, had a total of 29 horses shot out from under him during the war. He himself was shot four times, and he defeated over 30 Union soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.
6gBw TIL that the heads of suicide bombers are usually left intact, even though the rest of the body is blown to bits.