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TIL that Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffet's holding company) owns 6.7% of Activision Blizzard and 5.8% of Apple.

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OodBL TIL that the youngest French resistance hero was a little boy who acted as a courier for resistance fighters, slipping past enemy patrols and carrying messages. In 1950, he was posthumously awarded the rank of sergeant of the resistance. He was Marcel Pinte, and he died for France at the age of 6.
pYoeA TIL: Lincoln Logs, the children's building toy, was based on an earthquke-proof construction technique used in a hotel in Japan and was patented by John Wright, the son of the hotel's designer, Frank Lloyd Wright
bydp TIL that rice alone provides more than 1/5 of all the calories consumed by humans.
graAb TIL that medical students and suffragettes clashed during the Brown Dog affair in 1900s. A small brown dog was dissected when Swedish women protested as they claim the dog was conscious during the procedure. Then medical and vet students united and let off a stink bomb at an animal activist's talk.
gMQxX TIL of Chevalier d'Éon - a French spy, dragoon and ambassador who had lived life both as man and woman. Their autopsy indicated they were intersex, and presented masculine in their early life for sake of inheritance.