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TIL Electronic Arts acquired PopCap Games back in 2011 for more $650 Million Dollars plus $100 Million in Stocks and Multi-Year Bonus which totals up to $1.3 Billion in total acquisition price

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g4jW TIL I learned the Village People didn’t create the YMCA dance. The group was clapping above their head during a performance and the audience thought they were making a “Y” and continued by forming the rest of the letters The band just rolled with it and included it in the rest of their performances.
0dO11 TIL of Margaret Clitherow, who despite being pregnant with her fourth child, was pressed to death in York, England in 1586. The two sergeants who were supposed to perform the execution hired four beggars to do it instead. She was canonised in 1970 by the Roman Catholic Church
R75wl TIL The Molotov cocktail was named in reference to Soviet minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who claimed on state radio that the bombing of Finland was a humanitarian mission to provide food aid to starving Finns. The Finns jokingly dubbed the incendiary device as a drink to go with the food.
WP9Y TIL Warren Buffet went to The Wharton School at UPenn at age 16, but then transferred out because he felt he knew more than his professors
69Vo7 TIL about the Dictionnaire Infernal, a book on demonology first published in 1818. Initially a work of fiction, author Collin de Plancy later converted to Roman Catholicism and amended the book: the final edition aligns with Catholic theology and affirms the existence of the demons.