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TIL Python's official documentation encourages you to make Monty Python references in your code documentation, since that's what the language is named after.

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gMaL7 TIL That the US Flag Code does not require that a US flag that touches the ground be burned but merely to adjust the flag so that it is no longer touching the ground.
m1mjM TIL the monarch butterfly population has declined 85% in two decades. The western population has suffered a 99% decline. Monarchs are threatened by pesticides — including toxic neonicotinoids and herbicides, which are killing off the milkweed plants they need to survive.
Kpj9 TIL the bird Americans call a “turkey” is called an India in Turkey, and a Peru in Portugese.
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