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TIL that the President of Seychelles is an Anglican priest

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OpB7 TIL bees can also detect bombs. 50 bees only need 2-3 hours of training
B7jy TIL a physicist published his cat as a coauthor so he could write using first person plural without being criticized.
Vx44 TIL that in 1997, a former head of Russian National Security alleged that 100 suitcase-sized Nuclear Bombs had gone missing
5YnLP TIL about the Dunning–Kruger effect, which is "a cognitive bias wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is"
prOp TIL in 1947 the British used 6800 tonnes of surplus WW2 explosives to destroy military infrastructure on the tiny island of Heligoland. Loss of the island was acceptable. The explosion resulted in one of the largest single non-nuclear detonations recorded. Newsreel footage in comments.