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Strike Back (2010)

This British spy-thriller miniseries has, like any good spy show, a nail-biting scene involving missile guidance systems. The code for this guidance system, though, comes from one of the JavaScript source code files for WordPress. The best part? The WordPress Lead Developer went and integrated the changes for the "guidance system" back into WordPress.

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