Post * rGE4 — Curious Curator

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TIL that the intro to Disneys “Lion King” is unapologetically stolen shot for shot from an old anime called “Kimba The White Lion”

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WkEnY 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.

bVpp TIL that Sir Archy, one of the first great American race horses, retired because “there were no opponents willing to race against him.” His offspring were also so successful that they were effectively banned.

9YmeB TIL Forensic lip-readers are usually deaf or from deaf families, and use lipreading in their daily lives to a greater extent than people with normal hearing outwith a deaf community. In the UK, a landmark case established the admissibility of lipreading evidence.

MZV8 TIL homophobia is more common for in-the-closet homosexuals with authoritarian parents

OodBL TIL that the youngest French resistance hero was a little boy who acted as a courier for resistance fighters, slipping past enemy patrols and carrying messages. In 1950, he was posthumously awarded the rank of sergeant of the resistance. He was Marcel Pinte, and he died for France at the age of 6.