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TIL: In 2017, the CIA released over 470,000 files that were on Osama Bin Laden's hard drive to the public with the exception of copyright material and some porn. It was found he had Final Fantasy 7, Ice Age, and Resident Evil along with several BBC and CNN documentaries on him.

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4XMjw TIL that during the Bengal famine of 1943, Canada, US, and Australia made offers to export wheat to India, but Winston Churchill said India has adequate stocks and instead diverted the food stocks to the Mediterranean to stock up for the Tunisia Campaign. Three million Indians died due to the famine
rN59o TIL the Hillary Step on Mount Everest was destroyed by an earthquake in 2015.
0dbDR TIL about King Ludwig II of Bavaria, born in 1845 and often called "The Fairy Tale King." Unlike other monarchs obsessed with war and power, Ludwig was enchanted by dreams, music, medieval legends and solitude. He loved building castles, and without him, we wouldn’t have Neuschwanstein Castle.
Z8rxv TIL the 1.5-mile-long, 22-foot-high, 4.5-foot-wide granite wall, that currently surrounds the Minnesota State Correctional Facility in St.Cloud, Minnesota, USA is the second largest wall built using inmate labor in the world. The Great Wall of China is the first.
EgpQw TIL that for the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), director Tim Burton initially requested 25 gallons of artificial chocolate for the Chocolate river set. This amount gradually increased in scope, to 10,000 liters then 25,000 liters. The final amount used was 1.25 million liters.