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TIL Warren Buffet bought controlling stock of Berkshire Hathaway to fire the president because of a personal grudge. Buffett estimates this cost him $200b over 45 years in lost investments.

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lo407 TIL the small town of Tanner, Alabama has the distinction of being hit by two F5 tornadoes within a 30 minutes timeframe. On the night of April 3, 1974, rescuers in Tanner were busy searching for victims of the first twister when they were surprised by a second which wiped out the rest of the town
MeGea TIL of Erik Weihenmayer, the only Blind person to have climbed the Seven Summits of every continent, and the first/one of the only Blind persons to climb Mt. Everest.
b6ZJj TIL Oreos are a knock-off of Hydrox cookies, which came out four years earlier (in 1908)
xVMb7 TIL Tchaikovsky was in love with his nephew, or at the very least deeply infatuated with him
8nlG TIL of Parlor Rollers. It is a breed of pigeon that can’t fly but can roll or do somersaults on the ground.