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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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LkDJm TIL that Flamin’ Hot Cheetos were invented by Richard Montañez, a janitor for Frito-Lay. After heeding the call of the then CEO to “act like an owner” he then called the CEO about his idea, which took off as one of their best selling products today
07A1 TIL HAL Laboratory’s (creators of Kirby and Super Smash Bros.) name was created to put them one step ahead of IBM with each letter
wooWP TIL Stephen Gough, "Naked Rambler", walked the length of the UK naked. He attempted to do it again in 2005 and 2006 but was arrested, and has spent much of the intervening years in prison, having been repeatedly arrested for public nudity.
0B7N TIL George Clooney Keeps A Photo Of Himself As Batman ‘As Cautionary Reminder Of What Happens When You Make Movies For Commercial Reasons’
bnN4 TIL that in the 60s, the US military secretly sprayed (possibly radioactive) experimental chemicals, like zinc cadmium, on thousands of residents of poor neighborhoods in St. Louis, without their knowledge or consent, to see what would happen