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TIL the Taliban offered to give up Osama bin Laden for trial before September 11, 2001.

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l1kK TIL A man who committed a mass murder in North Carolina in 1988 was set free in 2012.
YrpB TIL In 1980, China’s economy was smaller than Pakistan’s. After growing by more than 10% annually over the past 30 years, China’s economy is expected to surpass the U.S. by 2028
VBj8D TIL that "Edmond de Belamy," a portrait generated by AI, sold for $432,500 in 2018. It was created using an algorithm trained on 15,000 portraits from the 14th to 19th centuries, and the "artist" signed it with a mathematical formula.
ne9br TIL an estimated one in four cowboys in the 1870s and 1880s were black.
YpA4G TIL that preschool shows where characters ask the viewers directly to participate rarely have conflict. An early episode of Dora The Explorer that retold the three little pigs traumatised preschoolers because the viewers felt morally responsible for saving the pigs' lives.