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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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9w4G6 TIL The Sopranos was first called The Family Man
7mr7 TIL a Florida highschooler was suspended for wrestling a gun away from another student, because he was involved in an “incident with a weapon”
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