Surprising Facts that the FBI Wants You To Know

The FBI vs. It's a Wonderful Life

In a turn of events, the FBI absolutely detested the Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life. According to Director Hoover, the movie apparently "represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a 'scrooge-type' so that he would be the most hated man in the picture." He felt that it was supporting communism. 

The FBI vs. Borat

Naturally, the FBI wasn't a fan of Borat. Sacha Baron Cohen said that the FBI was following them as they were filming. "Sometimes it was the police, then the FBI was following us for a while. They had so many complaints that there was a Middle Eastern man driving through America in an ice cream van, that the FBI assigned a team to us."

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The More You Know

  • Pilots and their co-pilots are required to eat different meals before flights so that they don’t both end up with food poisoning.
  • War pigs were used in ancient warfare to counter against war elephants, which feared the pigs (and their squeals) and would bolt. War pigs were sometimes lit on fire to enhance this effect.
  • Tic Tac mints are named after the sound their container makes.
  • The longest place name on the planet is 85 letters long.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.