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

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e0DOD TIL Richard Pryor was bisexual and out to his friends.
QJGJM TIL that the largest cavalry charge in history occurred during the 1683 Turkish siege of Vienna. The Polish king led 18,000 German and Polish Cavalry in a charge that broke the Ottomans line and won the battle. The king paraphrased caesar, saying "I came, I saw, God conquered"
7rrWZ TIL the wreck of the Titanic is so deep in the ocean that there's very little oxygen so it doesnt really rust. Instead it is being slowly consumed by anaerobic bacteria (a kind that doesn't need oxygen to live). Within a few hundred years, a pile of iron ore will be all that remains of the titanic.
8j7G TIL a German WWII fighter pilot accidentally landed in Wales, giving the Allies a working specimen of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190
dLLZ TIL: Tesla Motors wanted to name their 2017 car the “Model E”, so they could spell “ SEX” with their three car models. Ford Motors threatened legal action, so they changed it to “Model 3”, to spell “ S3X”.