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

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Jp6j TIL that despite being one of the most successful fighting games of all time, “Mortal Kombat” only had a development team of four people.
4ge5 TIL there is a “zip bomb” that is only 42 kilobytes when zipped, but is 4.5 Petabytes uncompressed.
e40g TIL the Chernobyl power plant didn’t go completely off line until the year 2000
JX4 TIL no physical clone trooper costume was ever produced for the Star Wars prequels. Every single clone trooper is a computer generated image.
mxQZy TIL when 150 doctors, dietitians, and personal trainers were surveyed about how weight loss works only three responded correctly (98% could not fully explain fat metabolism). The correct answer is that fat is converted into carbon dioxide and water - and you exhale most of that fat and pee the rest.