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TIL that “Rubber duck debugging” is when a programmer explains his code to a rubber duck in hopes of finding a bug

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EQyd TIL Galileo’s middle finger is kept in a museum since its 1737, symbolizing Galileo pointing to the skies, pointing to evolution, to new things, to the infinite and “giving the finger” to all of his critics who doubted him, including the catholic church.
oBmJL TIL: Moon looks reversed from Australia
neEW9 TIL that the theme song from the movie Titanic, Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On,” was playing in the dining room of the Costa Concordia cruise ship just as she hit an underwater reef, which would eventually lead to her sinking.
V0QB TIL In 1958, The Lumbee Indians of NC learned of a KKK rally being held in the woods nearby. They attacked the KKK rally and broke it up. The Klan was never active in the area again.
4XWXX TIL The capital city of Bhutan, Thimphu, is one of only two capital cities in the world where there are no traffic lights. In 1995, authorities installed traffic lights at busy downtown intersections, but drivers ignored it. They were subsequently taken down and replaced by traffic cops.