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TIL Ian Bogost created a game called Cow Clicker to criticize FarmVille. You click on a cow every six hours.

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XjpR TIL that one night comedian Artie Lange tried to commit suicide by drinking a bottle of bleach, stabbing himself in the stomach nine times, and slitting his own wrists…and survived
KO6g6 TIL Comedy Duo Penn & Teller are not friends and are essentially just co-workers.
1a9y8 TIL that according to a University of Chicago study, while the joy of receiving gifts lessens over time, the psychological benefits of giving do not. Participants’ happiness hardly declined if they repeatedly bestowed gifts on others, versus repeatedly receiving those same gifts themselves.
WkGaB TIL That Blowing into an NES cartridge Did Absolutely Nothing
pQN TIL that there was once a 2.5 m (8 feet) tall, flightless, carnivorous bird in Australia that has been given the nickname “the demon duck of doom”.