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TIL that chinese prisoners were forced to farm gold in WoW which then would get sold for real money on the internet.

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5YlgQ TIL of the "Blood Quran" a Quran that was written in the blood of Saddam Hussein. The book is a problem for Islamic scholars because they can't agree over what should be done with it. It's a sin to write the Quran in blood but it's also a sin to destroy copies of the Quran. They're stumped.
wLE78 TIL that in 1970, the state commission in Mississippi voted to not air Sesame Street because of its “highly [racially] integrated cast of children” which “the commission members felt ... Mississippi was not yet ready for”.
6868 TIL that after a year of people using NYC’s bikeshare program, riders have gone 14,700,000 mi. and none of them has died.