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TIL Osama Bin Laden was a fan of Dragon Ball Z games and he used to play many other games including Counter-Strike, Half-Life & Super Mario.

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N7L1N TIL when Michael Jackson bought the publishing rights to the Beatles catalog, he was unaware that the Beatles owned all of the rights to Little Richard’s publishing. As soon as Michael found that out, he immediately gave Little Richard all of his publishing rights back
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