diff --git a/cpp_file_for_gh.cpp b/cpp_file_for_gh.cpp
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+// Cliff note - I've burned hours and hours trying to get the GitHub Languages percentage
+// histogram to be correct with respect to having C++ files in the Presentations repo.
+//
+// So this file is simply a C++ file that doesn't really do anything.
+
+int main() {
+  return 0;
+}