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TIL there’s a debugging method that uses rubber duck

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YGWB TIL that “crab mentality” describes selfish, short-sighted thinking best described by the phrase “if I can’t have it, neither can you.”
wKQE TIL that prisoners at Buchenwald Concentration Camp built a shortwave radio in secret and sent out an SOS in hopes of rescue. The Headquarters of the Third Army replied: - “KZ Bu. Hold out. Rushing to your aid. Staff of Third Army.”
Oo9J4 TIL viruses are not alive because they do not have cells, they cannot turn food into energy, and without a host they are just inert packets of chemicals. Then I learned they are not exactly dead, either: They have genes, they reproduce, and they evolve through natural selection.
yQL7v TIL to make Crash Bandicoot work Naughty Dog had to hack the original playstation.
XgVk TIL a ring given from mother to son in 1974 while she was dying from cancer was lost two weeks later while he was boating on the Cooper River, SC. 39 years later, a diver found the ring underwater and returned it to the man, who was in the hospital dying from cancer.