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TIL Mary Queen of Scots (1586) plotted to kill Queen Elizabeth I with secret coded letters. Walsingham (Elizabeth's secretary) cracked the code. He sent Mary a letter using her code, asking her to list all people involved in the plot. She thought the code was unbreakable.

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