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TIL "five golden rings" may have originally referred to pheasants, rather than jewelry, so the sequence of birds is uninterrupted.

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NkvN TIL that to save cost and avoid faulty code in the 60’s, IBM created the ’ IBM Black Team’ which was a group of debuggers who were both respected and feared amongst the other developers.
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