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TIL Napoleon's great-nephew Charles founded the FBI

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WG4d TIL after working on the US bid for the 1986 World Cup, Henry Kissinger was quoted as saying “The politics of FIFA, they make me nostalgic for the Middle East”.
7knL TIL an American Airlines flight from LA to NYC made an unscheduled stop in Kansas City to offload a passenger who wouldn’t stop singing “I Will Always Love You.”
pkBO TIL that in 1922, the New York Times reported that “several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler’s anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused”.
a8n6N TIL English football (soccer) team Derby County's stadium from 1889 to 2003 was called the "Baseball Ground". It was originally built for baseball, which had a brief vogue in England in the 1890s, but the last baseball game played there was in 1898.
6Eo6Q TIL, in 2014, after Bieber's arrest for DUI, "Deport Justin Bieber and revoke his green card" received almost 275,000 signatures. Petitions with 100,000 signatures require an official White House response. However, the WH's response was, "Sorry to disappoint, but we won't be commenting on this one."