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TIL Warren Buffet only bought Berkshire Hathaway because the CEO pissed him off and he wanted to fire him

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JjP4 TIL there is a cluster of oil wells on the campus of Beverly Hills High School that generates about $300,000 of revenue per year for the school.
vlD8 TIL the last recorded words to come from inside the Challenger Space Shuttle before it exploded were, “Uh oh.”
nowr TIL 15-year-old Jonathan Lebed was making up to $74,000 a day in the stock market by using internet message boards to manipulate prices. The Government eventually went after him, but he was able to keep half a million dollars of his gains.
m6Ep TIL a suicide bomber planning on detonating in Moscow at New Year’s Eve, used her phone as the trigger. When her mobile phone company sent her a spam message, the bomb detonated, killing only herself.
KOnMG TIL in 1997 a division by zero on the USS Yorktown's database system brought down all the machines on the ship's network, causing the propulsion system to fail.