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TIL billionaire Warren Buffett eats breakfast at McDonald's every day and pays with exact change of either $2.61, $2.95, or $3.17, depending on what he chooses to eat that day.

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j9xN TIL Professor Geoff Raisman spent 60 years of his life trying to find a cure for paralysis. He was fired twice but 9 months ago he helped paralysed Darek Fidyka walk again and believes his team’s work, and this breakthrough, will help many paralyzed people walk again in the near future.
XEr9R TIL Muammar Qaddafi was obsessed with Secretary of State, Condolezza Rice. During one visit he showed her a video with photos of her with various people, set to a song composed just for her called ‘Black Flower in the White House.’ When his house was raided a scrapbook of her pictures was found.
NE6E TIL that roughly 2/3 of the US population lives within 100 miles of the border.
QN4md TIL that the voice of Grover and Yoda are the same guy. Frank OZ
6E6DX TIL Seinfeld has had difficulty reaching global audiences. While it’s popular in Latin America, it hasn’t been widely accepted in Germany, France, Italy, and the Netherlands. Its humor, it seems, is just too complicated, too cultural and word-based, to make for easy translation.