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TIL that the US didn't have a unified intelligence agency until 1941, when Royal Navy Admiral John Godfrey, director of Naval Intelligence, met with President Roosevelt and urged its creation. Roosevelt agreed. Godfrey's assistant at the meeting was Lt. Cdr. Ian Fleming, who later wrote James Bond

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NXpeP TIL the US Treasury confirmed that penny press souvenir machines do not violate Title 18, Chapter 17 of the U.S. Code on mutilation of currency
9wAZB TIL that James VI, King of Scotland, was only thirteen months old when he succeeded to the throne. His reign in Scotland would be the longest of any Scottish monarch at 57 years and 246 days.
9wbGG TIL that Sweyn Forkbeard was the first Viking king to rule England. He massacred, plundered, and burned his way through the countryside, capturing London on Christmas Day 1013. He died just 40 days later. Upon his death the previous king Æthelred the Unready came back and retook his throne.
ZVWD TIL That Inverted totalitarianism is a term coined by Princeton University political philosopher Sheldon Wolin to describe the emerging form of government of the United States, very much like the regimes of Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union.
v1kPx TIL in 1938 William Cooper led a delegation of the Australian Aboriginal League to the German Consulate in Melbourne to hand over a petition protesting the “cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government of Germany.” 70 years later Israel planted 70 trees in remembrance of the protest