› added 1 year ago

54

TIL that Berkshire Hathaway has never had a stock split and each share trades at over US$400,000.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

MWlA TIL while filming Poltergeist, Robbie truly got choked during a take by the robot clown doll — it wasn’t until the boy turned purple that Spielberg realized what was actually happening
gkeb TIL that when Adolf Hitler shot himself Helmut Christian Goebbels (son of Joseph Goebbels), mistook the sound of the shot for that of a mortar landing nearby, and screamed “That was a bullseye!”
LkOlZ TIL in 1971, Texas lawmaker Tom Moore tried pranking the Texas legislature by introducing a resolution to commend the Boston Strangler for population control. The resolution passed unanimously. Some use this as a criticism that legislators don't read what they vote on.
x6Ppk TIL John Quincy Adams (the sixth U.S. president) met both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln (the first and 16th).
MegG0 TIL Taylor Swift was born into wealth. Her father is "from three generations of bank presidents" and worked for Merrill Lynch. At the age of 14 her family moved to Nashville where her father purchased a stake in Big Machine, the label to which Swift first signed.