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TIL: CertificationPoint was accepted into YCombinator

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ngOB TIL That Mathematical Physicist Arnold Sommerfeld holds the record for the mentoring the highest number of Nobel Laureates, but won none out of the 81 times he was nominated for the same honour
ZAL4 TIL that as horrible as the infamous D-Day was, there were 126 equivalent D-Days in the Pacific theater
nWlLG TIL the idea for Spider-man villain Venom was purchased by Marvel’s Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter from Marvel comics reader Randy Schueller for $220.
VMRKm TIL on august 10, 2018, an airplane was stolen from Sea–Tac Airport in Washington by 29-y-old Richard Russell, a ground service agent with no piloting experience. He flew around for 1h15min, kept radio contact, did a succesfull barrel roll, then crashed on an island purposely, killing only himself
R7ok8 TIL of Juan Luna, a painter who killed his wife and her mother in Paris in 1892, because he suspected his wife of having had an affair. He was arrested but acquitted on the basis of temporary insanity. At the time in France there was an “unwritten law” that forgave men for killing unfaithful wives.