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TIL ICE hasn’t had an official Director since 2017, instead having a number of Acting Directors serving as head of the agency.

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yye TIL that the founder of FedEx once saved the company by taking its last $5,000 and turning it into $32,000 by gambling in Las Vegas.
914r TIL that potential heirs to the throne of the Ottoman Empire, when born, were kept in a “cage” until they assumed the throne, resulting in many kings to be crazed uneducated madmen.
kOonB TIL of Pedro Rodrigues Filho, a serial killer who killed most of his victims as revenge including his own father who killed his mother, a group of gangsters who killed his girlfriend, and 47 other inmates in jail. It is suspected that he had over 100 victims
Z8n5R TIL that Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President Garfield, probably suffered from neurosyphillis, perhaps caught from a prostitute. He spent several years at a free love commune but could not get any of the women there to sleep with him, even earning the nickname "Charles Git-out"
rRyYe TIL in reference to Donald Duck’s nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Disney's archivist Dave Smith, in "Disney A to Z", said, "Note that the brightest hue of the three is red (Huey), the color of water, dew, is blue (Dewey), and that leaves Louie, and leaves are green."