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TIL: People demanded refunds of the game ‘Bioshock Infinite’ after not wanting to do the force baptism sequence that is required to advance in the game.

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VMMjp TIL Apple bought $270 billion dollars worth of "intangible assets" from Ireland --- more than the entire value of all the residential property in Ireland.
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kOGb4 TIL Banpo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea is the world's largest "bridge fountain". LED-lit fountains span each side of the nearly 3/4-mile-long bridge and shoot dancing rainbow-colored jets of water.
xV0rg TIL I learned that George Washington Carver, the "Peanut Guy", was also the first black American to receive a bachelors degree in the US in 1894. He also discovered dozens of new use cases from sweet potatoes. So he was so much more than just a peanut guy! Powerful black history facts.
E16dW TIL that comedian Ryan Stiles from Whose Line is it Anyway? has been a frequent fund raiser for children with burn injuries, raising over $500,000 for the Burned Children Recovery Center since 2009, helping the foundation to recover from the economy crash of 2008.