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TIL that in 1945, as a high school sophomore, Buffett and a friend spent $25 to purchase a used pinball machine, which they placed in the local barber shop. Within months, they owned several machines in different barber shops across Omaha & sold the business to a war veteran for a tidy sum of $1200

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