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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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WkGNd TIL cows are the female animal once they have had a baby calf. Heifers are cows that haven't had a baby yet. Bulls are the males capable of mating and steers are bulls that have been castrated (only removing testicles). The general descriptor for the species as a whole is "cattle"
GAo4Q TIL Bill Nye quit his job at Boeing to be a stand up comic after winning a Steve Martin look alike contest in 1978.
BrbmW TIL Before the conflict in South Sudan, a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of sugar used to cost eight South Sudanese pounds. The price reached 400 South Sudanese pounds in 2018
wLEy1 TIL that professional wrestler Kerry Von Erich had to have his foot amputated after a bad accident, but continued wrestling while secretly wearing a prosthetic - even showering in his boots so no one would know. His injury wasn't public knowledge until his death from suicide 7 years later.
oRYLW TIL Tupac Amaru Shakur was named after Tupac Amaru II who led the largest anti colonial rebellion in Spanish American history in 18th century Peru