One of the weirdest and most interesting parts of LLMs is that they grow more effective the more languages and disciplines they are trained in. It turns out training LLMs on code instead of just prose boosted their intelligence and reasoning capabilities by huge amounts.
There are a lot of papers that stumble upon this while working with LLMs and its mentioned off hand in the conclusions. If you want a paper that explicitly tested this here you go - https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.437.pdf
