The power of False

I recently picked up programming, in Python no less, and I discovered something. I’m not sure whether Python understands poetry, but the Ministery of Truth approves:

What other unexpected “truths” are out there?

Edit: typo

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A quote from the true manpage:

true - do nothing, successfully
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I can’t imagine this has tripped up anyone, ever.

>>> false = False
>>> true = True
>>> if true:
...     print(true)
... else:
...     print(false)
...
True
>>> if false:
...     print(false)
... else:
...     print(true)
...
True

false - do nothing, unsuccessfully

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