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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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yayX TIL the best female sniper of all time was a 24 year-old Russian WWII soldier named Lyudmila Pavlichenko. She left university in Ukraine during her senior year to begin “hunting Nazis” after the Third Reich invaded the country.
4kLWb TIL that all the ants in the world have a greater mass than all the birds and mammals.
J1gam TIL Hong Kong digs up the dead after 6 years for cremation due to lack of space
v1XlB TIL China, the country with a population of 1.3 billion, has multiple ghost cities with thousands of villas, skyscrapers and shopping malls that are still unoccupied.
R9ga TIL the 442nd Infantry Regiment, a largely Japanese American unit that served during WWII, did so while their families were held in internment camps. Their motto was “Go for Broke” and they were the most decorated unit in U.S. military history.