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TIL that Warren Buffett is the oldest CEO of a Fortune 500 company at 93 years old.

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pMnA TIL Joe Pyne once started his interview with Frank Zappa by saying “So I guess your long hair makes you a woman.” to which Zappa responded “So I guess your wooden leg makes you a table!”
nAm7 TIL When asked why he’d punched the man who’d hit him with a raw egg, UK politician John Prescott said that he was following Tony Blair’s orders to, “Connect with the electorate.”
78EMr TIL If a swarm of bees flies into an occupied hive in Switzerland that belongs to another person, the owner of this hive acquires the swarm without any obligation to pay compensation.
N76r6 TIL about Nasubi, a contestant on a Japanese game show who was forced to live alone, naked, in a small room and required to enter contests in magazines to provide him with physical objects, such as food and cloths. He never knew he was on TV as the producers had lied to him. Show ran for 15 months.
kOMoW TIL in the UK, A study for disappearances looked at 96 fatal cases, 53% of all male disappearances occur in the months December January and February, with 22% of those cases occurring in December between Christmas and new years eve. And 89% of bodies are found in canals, rivers, lakes or harbours.