Python is named after the British comedy group Monty Python, not the reptile.

JavaScript has almost no actual relation to Java; the name was a marketing tactic to capitalize on Java's immense popularity at the time.

In coding, '++' is the increment operator which adds 1 to a variable, signifying that C++ is the next step up from the C programming language.

In 1947, engineers found a literal moth stuck in a relay of the Harvard Mark II computer, leading to the widespread use of the term 'debugging'.