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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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ylvv TIL Foreskins are used to make high-end skin creams. The skin products contain fibroblasts grown on the foreskin and harvested from it. One foreskin can be used for decades to produce fancy face cream like the SkinMedica products hawked on Oprah
awPRo TIL Chinese wildlife trade industry is worth around $76 billion and employs more than 14 million people.
9wPD6 TIL that Hummingbirds have specialized wings that only attach to their bodies from the shoulder joint, allowing them to fly not only forward but also straight up and down, sideways, backward, and to hover in front of flowers.
KZWQ TIL that in 2013, British scientists claimed to have found extraterrestrial life form in Earth’s stratosphere
GAnm4 TIL After seeing its pork production decimated by flu outbreaks, farms across China have been investing billions of dollars into massive high-rise hog-raising facilities popularly known as pig hotels, with one hotel in the Southern China being 13 stories tall and meant to hold around 10,000 pigs.