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TIL that any organization can issue certificates with CPDs or Continuing Professional Education. How valuable the training is does not matter.

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VMg9k TIL of Winthrop Niles Kellogg. He attempted to "humanize" a baby chimpanzee by raising it alongside his infant son. The experiment had to be halted when, instead of humanizing the chimp, the young boy became more chimp-like.
XEL5E TIL that Andrew Jackson openly opposed paper money, instead preferring gold and silver coins as currency. In his farewell address he cautioned the public on the national bank. Ironic that his portrait has lived on the $20 since 1928, replacing Grover Cleveland.
grvOL TIL that Charles Goodell, father of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, was chosen to fill Robert F. Kennedy's Senate seat after his assassination.
9RYQ TIL That Canada is the only host nation in the history of the games not to win a gold medal in their own Summer Olympic Games (Montreal 1976)
w0AP TIL Ghengis Khan forbade the selling of women, theft of other’s properties, decreed religious freedom, outlawed hunting during breeding seasons, and exempted the poor from taxation.