To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs, it will let you go instantly.

According to a study of surgical residents participating in the Rosser Top Gun Laparoscopic Skills and Suturing Program, surgeons who play video games make thirty-seven percent fewer errors and complete their tasks twenty-seven percent faster. Video game skills are a strong indicator of surgical skills.

Xiao Yun, from China, was missing for ten years and presumed dead, but was then found living in an Internet cafe. A runaway at the age of fourteen, she was good at the game Crossfire, so other gamers paid to watch her play it and she slept at Internet cafes and public bathhouses until she was found at the age of twenty-four.

Even Al Qaeda has gone on record as denouncing the actions of ISIS as anti-Islamic.