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TIL: CertificationPoint was accepted into YCombinator

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JK7V TIL: There’s a Crater in Russia with enough diamonds in it to supply the entire world’s need for 3,000 years. (“Trillions of Carats”)
DQgeJ TIL that while serving in WWII, Mel Brooks was assembling a bridge one night when he heard German soldiers singing badly in the distance, he grabbed a bullhorn and sang back. When he was finished he thought he heard applause.
xVDa5 TIL when actor Fred Gwynne died, many newspapers used a photo of him as Fred Munster as his obituary photo.
papG TIL that one of the mightiest pirates that ever lived was a Chinese female prostitute. She controlled 1,800 ships and 80,000 sailors.
8a7nX TIL - There’s a tree whose fruit naturally explodes, shooting its seeds up to 100m away.