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TIL that the President of Seychelles is an Anglican priest

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OogE1 TIL Norwegian guards working at Nazi prison camps in northern Norway were so brutal that it shocked the German SS soldiers supervising them. The German officers were so unnerved that they removed these guards from active service and others were jailed.
GVV7 TIL the USA is the only country without a statutory minimum employment leave (mandatory vacation law)
vnEr TIL that the Shell Corporation started out in 1833 as an import-export business specialising in oriental seashells. They started shipping oil over 50 years later but the name stuck.
k85g TIL John Fogerty was sued by his CCR record label after his solo career got popular, for sounding too much like himself.
vPYKr TIL that there were two contemporary inquiries into the sinking of the Titanic (British and American). The British inquiry focused more on how the disaster had come about, while the American version was much more about who should be blamed.