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TIL Napoleon's great-nephew Charles founded the FBI

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BrNey TIL MI6 once hacked into an al-Qaeda and replaced their instructions for making bombs with a cupcake recipe
Gb94 TIL Christopher Walken has only ever been pulled over on the freeway once. Christopher questioned whether the plain clothes officer was indeed an officer, who replied with “no” and simply got back into his car and drove away.
8aogV TIL death row prisoners of Tennessee can choose between death by lethal injection or death by electric chair
wLERo TIL That Queen Elizabeth II retains real powers like the ability to dissolve the Australian and Canadian parliaments.
woXv8 TIL After Leonardo da Vinci's death in 1519, his half-brother Bartolomeo attempted to replicate his genius by fathering a son by a woman from the same village as Leonardo's mother. The boy, Pierino da Vinci, was raised in one of Florence's finest art studios but sadly died young.