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    Is having things a newbie "doesn't know about" in the file actually
    harmful (especially considering, it's more or less just a text file,
    and this funny stuff is at the end)?

I don't think it is very harmful.  It's not a big issue.

    Maybe it's actually _good_, in that it might might peak their curiosity

Pique, not peak.