It's no surprise that Internet search engines have been overwhelmed with questions this week about Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaida leader who was killed in a raid by Navy Seals on Sunday.
What's more surprising is how many of those queries about bin Laden asked who he was.
Yahoo reports one of the top searched questions in the hours after bin Laden's death was, Who is Osama bin Laden? Teens aged 13 to 17 made up 66 percent of those searches, according to Yahoo.
The popular blog Boing Boing posted a list of Tweets, mostly from teenagers, that included, "Who is Osama and why is it important we killed him?" and "Is he in a band as well?"
Loris High School U.S. history teacher Brandon Todd says those students didn't come from Horry County.
Global terrorism is a required subject in South Carolina's history curriculum, he said.
"It normally comes up towards the end of the year because that is where it shows up in the curriculum, but there are various times throughout the entire year that global terrorism will come up."
Social studies learning specialist Jeanie Dailey said she sat in on a lively discussion in an Horry County school this week about bin Laden and his role in the 9-11 attacks.
"Students had vivid memories of that day, even though many of them were in the 1st grade when it happened," she said.
Dailey said the state requires the teaching of global terrorism and the reasons behind it as early as the 5th grade.
Still, NewsChannel 15 found two Conway High School students who told us they had never heard of bin Laden before this week.
"I know now, but I still don't know why to kill him," said junior JaiQueesha Hightower.
Sophomore Taylor Smith told us, "I would like to know more about it since it happened but if I just know the name, I need details to know about it."
