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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.

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eoeL TIL there were two undercover agents so convincing the mob offered them “made man” status. Joaquin Garcia aka Jack Falcone, and Joseph Pistone aka Donnie Brasco.
EgdB0 TIL In 1917, the world’s first animated feature film was made in Argentina. It was a political satire called El Apostol made up of 58,000 drawings and had a running time of 70 minutes. The film was lost after a fire destroyed the producer’s studio in 1926.
0wyg5 TIL Diseconomies of scale are when businesses become less efficient as they get bigger. Reasons include the increased cost of communication between workers, office politics, and social loafing.
XvyQ TIL that school officials used a 15 year old as bait to catch another student suspected of sexual abuse, and still denies responsibility for her being raped because of it.
PYpvV TIL about Arminius, a Germanic child slave in Rome, who joined the Roman army to be free, eventually rose to knighthood, and when sent by Rome to Germania to conquer the tribes, instead secretly united the Germans under his own leadership and gave Rome its biggest defeat.