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Skipping lines: Update explanation

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* Add more accurate explanation
* Add more relevant example

Closes https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython/issues/39
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#### 💡 Explanation
Some Unicode characters look identical to ASCII ones, but are considered distinct by the interpreter.
Some non-Western characters look identical to letters in the English alphabet, but are considered distinct by the interpreter.
```py
>>> value = 42 #ascii e
>>> valuе = 23 #cyrillic e, Python 2.x interpreter would raise a `SyntaxError` here
>>> ord('е') # cyrillic 'e' (Ye)
1077
>>> ord('e') # latin 'e', as used in English and typed using standard keyboard
101
>>> 'е' == 'e'
False
>>> value = 42 # latin e
>>> valuе = 23 # cyrillic 'e', Python 2.x interpreter would raise a `SyntaxError` here
>>> value
42
```
The built-in `ord()` function returns a character's Unicode [code point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_point), and different code positions of cyrillic 'e' and latin 'e' justify the behavior of the above example.
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### Well, something is fishy...