This is actually fantastic
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Oh, this is good.
Scientists renamed some genes because Excel kept turning the original names into dates: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates
I've always liked the one that adds a third overlapping circle for "me eating a fig"
excel helping by removing leading zeros so you have to add ' and then excel puts a passive aggressive tick on that cell.
Also, me eating a prune.
I laughed hard enough to realize I lost too much life time to Excel.
Oldie but a goodie.
Hate it