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TIL the Taliban offered to extradite Osama bin Laden if the US presented evidence of his involvement in 9/11. However, the US refused.

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awPeL TIL that when filming Zulu (1964) in South Africa, when the authorities warned the British crew that interracial sex was punishable by whipping, the producer responded by asking "if he could have the lashes while doing it".
loRNA TIL 40% of the population in India speaks Hindi, and 8% speak Bengali, making it the second most widely spoken language. Around 10% of India’s population speak English, but it is only a first language for 0.019%
aww8J TIL it takes 300 people, 12,000 parts, and one year to make a single Steinway & Sons piano.
GYpM7 TIL An Ohio judge once sentenced a women to spend 8 hours at the "stinkiest, smelliest" part of the county dump, as punishment for neglecting her dog. "If you puke, you puke."
GYXY4 TIL that Lance Armstrong was only caught after an insurance company that sponsored him realized they could get millions of dollars in bonus money back if Armstrong was stripped of his titles.