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TIL Warren Buffett disowned his son Peter's adopted daughter, Nicole, in 2006 after she participated in the documentary "The One Percent", about the growing economic inequality between the wealthy and the average citizen in the United States.

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VBY50 TIL During production of The Godfather, James Caan was known to hang out with Carmine Persico, aka "The Snake", a notorious mafioso and later head of the Colombo crime family. Government agents briefly mistook Caan, who was relatively unknown at the time, as an aspiring mobster.
pkRe TIL: Wyclef Jean lied and stole $10 million from the Yele Haiti sham charity he set up
JYpMQ TIL that scientists have developed measurement formulas so precise that the distance between the Earth and Moon can be calculated with a margin of error smaller than the distance of a red blood cell.
7777 TIL that the largest player vs player battle in gaming history involved over 7000 players and lasted over 20 hours
R71w8 TIL I learned of the Fermi paradox, which states that if there was intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, they should have visited us by now