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TIL: CertificationPoint was accepted into YCombinator
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TIL near Frankfurt in central Germany, a cheese is served that is topped with raw onions, which is locally known as "hand cheese with music". When strangers ask why it is called this way, they are told "the music comes later". This is a running gag pointing at the farts caused by the onions.
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TIL that VHEMT(Voluntary Human Extinction Movement) is an enviromental movement that calls for all people to not reproduce. They support human extinction primarily to prevent environmental degradation.
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TIL Russian cosmonauts urinate on the right rear wheel of the transfer bus before liftoff. Female cosmonauts are excused, but some dash a cup of their own urine in solidarity.
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TIL of Valerie Browning - a woman who with her husband Ishmael has been serving the people of Afar, Ethiopia (one of the hottest places on earth) since 1973. She grew up in Armidale, New South Wales. She has been providing medicine, food and education to the people living there.
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TIL a controversy in Japan involving a famous weatherwoman, who received backlash from some of her fans after it became public knowledge that she had a boyfriend, led to the creation of a new word in the Japanese language, which literally translates to "business that preys on vulnerable men"