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TIL: That you can train honeybees to detect explosives

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jQmM TIL that only once in history has one submarine deliberately sunk another submerged submarine
oRwL TIL-Tapping the top of a shaken soda can does nothing to prevent the soda from bubbling out. Tapping on the side, however, does.
Ooxj1 TIL Kirkpatrick MacMillan, who invented the bicycle (disputed) also has the first recorded instance of a bicycle traffic offense, when he knocked over a pedestrian in Glasgow and was fined 5 shillings.
epgNg TIL Some cities are using blue light bulbs in public restroom, park lighting because the glow supposedly masks the blue-tinted lines of veins — making it harder for intravenous drug users to find a vein.
vjMB TIL that Venus is the only planet in the Solar System where the sun rises in the West and sets in the East.