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TIL In 2020, the Polish Chancellery of the Prime Minister added the video game "This War of Mine" (based on wartime atrocities in Bosnia during the 90s) to the recommended reading list in Polish high schools. The first initiative in the world to add a video game to recommended readings in school.

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