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TIL Napoleon's great-nephew Charles founded the FBI

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VBAe4 TIL "You need to wait 24 hours to file a missing person's report" is a TV trope. In reality, law enforcement agencies encourage reporting as soon as a person's absence is suspicious.
p8bP4 TIL a 64-year-old manager at a French defense manufacturer was gifted a ride as a passenger in a military jet but he failed to secure himself properly in the cockpit and at one point tried to to hold onto the ejector handle, accidentally activating it and ejecting himself mid-flight.
w40E TIL it used to be illegal for men to go bare-chested. After staging protests and getting a flurry of press attention, they finally won the right in the 1930s.
R77Q7 Most of the food weight and water retention disappears in time.
rMM4 TIL that the original creator of the Barbie doll had previously designed military-grade missiles