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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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nWWp7 TIL a DOJ study estimated that 11.2% of crimes involving a sexual component resulted in a false conviction (1 in 9)
ANMrd TIL that Charles Joughin, a baker on the Titanic, survived by getting spectacularly drunk
4X4Zg TIL that the estate of Jimi Hendrix no longer permits use of his music in films involving the abuse of drugs or alcohol. The last film to do so was ‘Withnail and I’ (1987).
YbPx TIL the guy who wrote “The Internet Is For Porn” is the same guy who composed the songs for Frozen.
8ZmX TIL in 1988, a retired police officer found Cyril Smith, British MP with 144 accusations of child molestation and abuse, in a home with a sex offender and two drunk teenage boys. He was threatened to be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act. Nothing happened.