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[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Fun fact: Osama bin Laden, the founder of Al-Qaeda, had this video in his computer's audio/visual collection.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Bit_My_Finger#Legacy

[–] str82L@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Another fun fact. Charlie turns 18 this year.

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Another fun fact: the contents of his computers that weren't scrubbed because of known malware or classified intelligence value are available courtesy of the CIA: https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/index.html

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago

What gives. I hate how much time I’ve already wasted trying to figure out why this is the one time CIA shares our American work with Americans.

It’s been like 30 seconds. I don’t know why they’d do this.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 3 points 3 months ago

Fun fact. The creator of this video turned it into a NFT and sold it to some fucking idiot for $500k.

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-57333990