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TIL: CertificationPoint was accepted into YCombinator

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9YeD TIL Snow White’s stepmother had to dance in hot iron shoes until she died.
DQ1WJ TIL In 1962 the French Defense Minister and Minister of Scientific Research were accidentally exposed to nuclear fallout. A subteranean nuclear bomb test in Béryl failed and the minister of defence described it as, 'a kind of gigantic blowtorch flame that started exactly horizontal in our direction'
GZlj TIL that the average IQ has been going up. If a typical person from 1910 time-transported to the present, they would have a mean IQ of 70, which is at the border of mental retardation.
oXOr TIL on September 1, 1755 during a religious holiday, one of the most powerful earthquakes in history destroyed nearly every church in Lisbon leaving the red light district virtually undamaged.
M7k6W TIL Joseph Stalin was only 5’5 and it made me laugh. One of the few cases I am perfectly fine with making fun of someone for their height