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TIL that Osama Bin Laden cost United States taxpayers over $3 trillion dollars over the 15 years leading up to his death.

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gr9mL TIL about Antônio Carlos Jobim, a Brazilian composer, songwriter, and singer sometimes known as the "father of bossa nova". His 1965 album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year with the single "Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema)", which became one of the most recorded songs of all time.
ObDg TIL that one of the reasons the Roman Empire fell was that they spent to much on the military and built a giant wall
gM4n7 TIL that two fans of the Epcot ride Horizons spent months documenting it before its closure by jumping out of their vehicle dozens of times to explore the sets without anyone noticing.
D1BDJ TIL chief justice John Marshall and his fellow justices enjoyed Madeira wine, but set a rule that they would only drink on rainy days. When Marshall was told it was a sunny day, he said, 'this is a large area we have jurisdiction over, I'm sure it's raining somewhere.'
m18ZE TIL about Spiro Mounds, a pre-European North American city where so much well preserved treasure was found it was called "an American King Tut's Tomb" It was bought by a mining company for $100, looted, mined, and blown up by dynamite.