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TIL there’s a term called ‘Rubber duck debugging’ which is the act of a developer explaining their code to a rubber duck in hope of finding a bug

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w7rE TIL in 2011 Joao found a penguin (Dindim) covered with oil and nearly dead. He worked feverishly to save its life. Every year since, Dindim swims 8,000KM to meet and live with Joao in Brazil.
NXPQb TIL that Charles III is the largest landowner in the world, as the British crown technically owns 90% of the land in Canada. The second-largest landowner is the Roman Catholic Church.
ADDgx TIL Gary Webb, the reporter from the San Jose Mercury News who first broke the story of CIA involvement in the cocaine trade, was found dead with "two gunshot wounds to the head." His death, in 2004, was ruled a suicide.
4XArR TIL about Guy Gabaldon, a half Mexican US marine who convinced around 1300 Japanese soldiers and civilians to surrender on his own, by going into enemy territory without weapons during the battle of Saipan in 1944
d8DkQ TIL: The United States government considers toothy smiles “unusual or unnatural expressions” on passports or visas.