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TIL that Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag has attracted criticism from PETA for it’s whaling mechanic. In response Ubisoft stated that they did not condone “illegal whaling” any more than they condoned “a pirate lifestyle.”

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QJBDL TIL romance novelist Danielle Steel wrote one science fiction novel, which was still a romance but with a clone
yVOaX TIL of there existed a government Music Bureau in Dynastic China aka the Ministry of Music which wasnt a music academy like today, it collected poems & musical scores & choreography to inform the emperor of the thoughts, feelings, and conditions of the various people in different parts of the empire
5lPQ TIL there’s a gun that sprays a skin stem cell mixture onto burn victims, and can have that area completely healed in 3 days!
0wWEj TIL that filmmaker Ralph Bakshi grew up in an all-black neighborhood in Washington, D.C. and got his mother's permission to attend the local segregated school with his friends. The school called the police and, afraid whites would riot if they learned that a white student was attending, expelled him
O84Y TIL holding a sword by the blade and using the hilt as a bludgeon was a technique called the “murder strike” in German fencing.