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Charley Bit Me (www.youtube.com)

submitted 5 months ago by snausagesinablanket to c/antiquememesroadshow

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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 8 points 5 months ago

Another fun fact. Charlie turns 18 this year.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 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.