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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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Oo4Q4 TIL the US Military is developing Bomb Sniffing Cyborg Locusts. Since 2016, Researchers at Washington University have attempted to implant locusts with cybernetic enhancements that allow them to be remotely piloted, use their antennae to detect explosives, and wirelessly relay that information back.
rNV9W TIL about Edmond Dédé, who wrote Morgaine, the oldest known opera written by an African American (1887). It was performed for the first time in the US on Feb 7th, 2025
6EXbJ TIL New York City is the most linguistically diverse city in the world, with as many as 800 spoken languages
xyl5 TIL George R.R. Martin writes all his novels in DOS using the ancient word processing program WordStar
nkgr TIL that a woman named Rifca Stanescu became the world’s youngest grandmother at the age of 23. Rifca, from the Romanian town of Investi, was 12 years old when she gave birth to her daughter, Maria. Maria, in turn, had her first child, her son Ion, at age 11.