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Til that Topher Grace's name is actually Christopher

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7rADO 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.
KO5nJ TIL about Eli Cohen, an Israeli spy who infiltrated the Syrian government and became Chief Advisor to the Syrian Minister of Defense.
16GYV TIL the United States did not annex the entirety of Mexico after the Mexican-American war because of racism
QJxxp TIL "High" in High Crimes and Misdemeanors refers to "the office, not the offense" in fact, "the offense may not even be a breach of criminal statute" this is due to more being expected from our leaders and can even include dishonesty and abuse of authority.
W7GP8 TIL that General Patton as a young officer competed in the 1912 Olympics in Pentathlon where he came in 5th, mostly because he insisted on using his own .38 service revolver for the shooting event and left such large holes in the target that it could not be determined if all of the rounds had hit.