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gebD TIL Warren Buffett met his mistress Astrid Menks, while she was a waitress at a nightclub his wife was a singer at. The women ‘shared’ Buffett from the 1970’s until his wife died in 2004. The three would send out Christmas cards signed “Warren, Susie and Astrid.” In 2006 Buffett married his mistress
N7QBQ TIL that in 1849, a fossil arm bone from a 10 foot long sea turtle was discovered in a streambed in New Jersey. In 2012, an amateur paleontologist found the other half of the same bone and the two halves were reunited after more than 160 years apart
w49W TIL Stalin exiled a filmmaker to a city in the Arctic circle for 10 years for dating his daughter
wL9VE TIL that bed bugs were practically driven to extinction in the United States up until the nineties. We still aren't sure exactly how they managed to come back, but they are sadly becoming much more common every year.
epmvn TIL The grandniece of China's last emperor is an artist who opened a gallery in Vancouver's Chinatown where she sells her paintings and displays works dedicated to explaining the Qing dynasty