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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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QYXa TIL that weathermen in the US were forbidden to forecast tornadoes, because it was believed that the panic caused by tornadoes was more dangerous than the tornadoes themselves.
yQy0M TIL in 2009 a man sued Pepsi after finding a dead mouse in his Mt. Dew. They responded by saying that if the mouse had been in the soda since its bottling, it would have dissolved.
PYrmZ TIL Seneca was a contemporary of Jesus Christ. They were born around the same time, although Seneca lived to age 69 - more than twice that of Jesus' lifetime
xD95 TIL: The NHL is the only professional sports league among ‘The Big 4’ that does NOT list Marijuana as a banned substance.