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gMG89 TIL that the position of "Commander in Chief, United States Fleet" was formerly given the acronym CINCUS (pronounced "sink us"). This was changed in 1941 after the Pearl Harbor attack.
PYGaE TIL the Spanish Inquisition was devoid of its own budget, meaning it depended exclusively on the confiscation of the goods of the denounced. Due to this organization and possibility of abuse, someone wrote a letter to the king saying of the inquisitors "if they do not burn they do not eat".
l7Y6r TIL that there is a man named Richard Weaver who multiple times has bypassed the Secret Service in order to shake Presidents' hands, claiming that it is a way of passing "notes from God" to them.
0wQ4L TIL: 80’s Night Court had the tallest cast in sitcom history. Richard Moll was 6’8, John Laroquette 6’4, Harry Anderson 6’4, Charles Robinson 6’2, and Marsha Warfield 5’11.
KOkJ4 TIL about Operation Sea-Spray, where in September 1950 a U.S. Navy ship spent a week spraying bacteria into the air about two miles off the northern California coast. The secret project's goal was to determine the susceptibility of a big city like San Francisco to a bioweapon attack.