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TIL: CertificationPoint was accepted into YCombinator

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awL6b TIL That the brain can be fooled into seeing colour images, when a coloured grid is overlayed across a black and white image.
J1LPV TIL about Le Club des Chefs des Chefs, an international culinary organisation of chefs to world leaders. Members include the chef of king Charles III, the head chef of the White House, the chefs of the presidents of India and South Africa
kObvW TIL that the direct opposite part of the world from where you are is called your ‘antipode’ and the vast majority of the USA’s antipode is actually in the Indian Ocean.
v1977 TIL if you want to name your child something that has never been used before in Iceland. You’ll have to go through the committee.
QR69 TIL that on October 19, 1864 Confederate soldiers slipped across the border from Canada and looted and robbed their way through Vermont during the American Civil War. They stole $208,000 or around $3 million in 2014 money