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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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4ko5R TIL in the 1992 World Series, the US Marine Corps carried the Canadian flag into the stadium upside down.
R7018 TIL that Isaac Asimov died of AIDS. He contracted HIV during a blood transfusion but it was kept secret until after a decade of his passing in the early '90s because of the hostility of the general public to the disease.
xVeNg TIL that MLB umpires are required by rule to wear only black underwear in the event that they split their pants.
5YBnk TIL Scottish Musician Les Harvey of the band Stone the Crows was electrocuted in front of a live audience in 1972 when he touched an un-grounded microphone cable and his guitar at the same time.
YprKd Today i learned how companies lie using statistics