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Weird history-facts: John F. Kennedy boned Hitler's ex-girlfriend during WWII
http://www.cracked.com/article_24602_jfk-nailed-hitlers-gf-historys-most-twisted-coincidences.htmlAaron Burr saved Alexander Hamilton from a duel. Then killed him 7 years later in a duel.
Abraham Lincoln created the Secret Service on the day he was assassinated.
JFK had an affair with danish journalist Inga Arvad in 1941... Who had had an affair with Hitler in 1936 during the Olympic Games.
The captain who ferried Darwin to the Galapagos-islands became deeply religious later on and one of Darwin's staunchest critics.
There was an FBI-agent who predicted a large-scale Al-Qaeda terror-attack, but nobody believed him. He was in the WTC on 9/11.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_P._O%27Neill
John Patrick O'Neill (February 6, 1952 – September 11, 2001) was an American counter-terrorism expert, who worked as a special agent and eventually a Special Agent in Charge in the Federal Bureau of Investigation until late 2001. In 1995, O'Neill began to intensely study the roots of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing after he assisted in the capture of Ramzi Yousef, who was the leader of that plot.
He subsequently learned of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, and investigated the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia and the 2000 USS Cole bombing in Yemen. Partly due to personal friction he had within the FBI and federal government, O'Neill was pushed out of the Bureau in 2001. He became the head of security at the World Trade Center, where he died at age 49 in the September 11, 2001 attacks. In 2002, O'Neill was the subject of a Frontline documentary The Man Who Knew, and cast as the protagonist in the television miniseries The Path to 9/11 and the 2003 book, "The Man Who Warned America by Murray Weiss."
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John Patrick O'Neill (February 6, 1952 – September 11, 2001) was an American counter-terrorism expert, who worked as a special agent and eventually a Special Agent in Charge in the Federal Bureau of Investigation until late 2001. In 1995, O'Neill began to intensely study the roots of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing after he assisted in the capture of Ramzi Yousef, who was the leader of that plot.
He subsequently learned of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, and investigated the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia and the 2000 USS Cole bombing in Yemen. Partly due to personal friction he had within the FBI and federal government, O'Neill was pushed out of the Bureau in 2001. He became the head of security at the World Trade Center, where he died at age 49 in the September 11, 2001 attacks. In 2002, O'Neill was the subject of a Frontline documentary The Man Who Knew, and cast as the protagonist in the television miniseries The Path to 9/11 and the 2003 book, "The Man Who Warned America by Murray Weiss."
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