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TIL of a form of debugging called rubber duck debugging, where you debug code by explaining it. The name is in reference to the book "The Pragmatic Programmer" where a programmer would debug code by explaining it, word by word, to his rubber duck.

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5A7r TIL Marvel created a superhero who wears a hearing aid after they learned of a boy who refused to wear one because “superheroes don’t wear hearing aids”
xVGKg TIL that in 1940, on the way to their invasion or Ardennes, France, the massive German army got into a major traffic jam. French reconnaissance pilots spotted it and reported it to French High Command who promptly said "that can't be true" and ignored it. An aerial attack could have ended the war
yVPpv TIL that during WWII, the Germans had official brothels for their soldiers and sailors.
0dR4M TIL: The energy in one barrel of oil equates to five years' worth of work of one human being.
J1v0j TIL that in Christian tradition, Zacchaeus, the short guy who climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus, and who Christian kids usually call a "wee little man", later became the first Bishop of Caesarea