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TIL that Isabela Merced got started in acting because her parents thought it would be a helpful distraction from their house burning down

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0VOy TIL in 1962, Warren Buffett agreed to selling shares of a failing company for $11.50 per share. The written offer was for only $11.375, so Buffett decided to buy more of the stock, took control of the company and fired the man who made the offer.
p8QQG TIL Starfish can drop off their arms when they feel threatened. Some species can even regenerate themselves from a single arm, as long as there's a small portion of the central disk, and some also reproduce that way, simply splitting in half to become two individual starfish.
px9p TIL there is an ongoing genocide in the country of Burma in which 140,000 native Rohingya people are stripped of citizenship and forced into concentration camps
VBBdp TIL that in 1981 there was a failed coup d’état in Spain which saw both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition held hostage alongside members of parliament
N751b TIL that Liberal, Missouri was founded as an atheist utopia. Residents published recruitment ads claiming "it was the only town of its size in the US without a priest, preacher, church, saloon, God, Jesus, Hell, or Devil." The founder, George Walser, later converted to Christianity.