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TIL that Warren Buffett got so mad that his son’s adopted daughter appeared on the documentary “The One Percent” that he disowned her and sent her a letter that said she had “never been considered a real family member” and had “not been legally or emotionally adopted” by him.

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JYPA4 TIL Apples are generally red, green, yellow, but if the right geographical conditions are met, they can apparently grow dark purple, almost black, as well. These rare apples are called Black Diamond and they are currently only grown in the mountains of Tibet.
maao TIL the US passed an act authorizing an invasion of The Hague in the Netherlands in order to free any US serviceman being held by the International Criminal Court
wL6a1 TIL a lot of countries now prefer to make economic deals with China instead of the U.S. due to the current U.S. administration in Washington being "hard to reach" and "hard to deal with"
awJJy TIL much of the work on the Apollo 11 spacecraft was done entirely by hand. For instance, parachutes were manually stitched and folded by only three indispensable, trained professionals who were forbidden from riding in the same car to prevent all three from being injured in the same accident.
dDwnZ TIL Aral Sea is a place of dark tourism where several ghost towns and ship graveyard dot its former shorelines after it dried up. After reaching the former port of Moynaq in Uzbekistan, it takes a 4WD car several hours to reach remains of the sea