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TIL the early YouTube hit "Charlie Bit My Finger" was found on Osama Bin Laden's computer by the CIA after his death

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nWpmo TIL that a basketball player, Boban Janković, frustrated with his fifth foul, slammed his head into a padded concrete post, leaving him unable to walk for the rest of his life.