escaping backticks in markdown

 While writing markdown in github, wanted to know how to escape the backtick ` character. 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24313204/how-does-one-escape-backticks-in-markdown

Apparently, we can do ``` ` ``` which will render as ` (note the space between the three initial backticks and the single one. We can also do \` when the backtick is not supposed to be inside a code block.