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TIL Warren Buffett made $37 Million each day in 2013

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W7pr9 TIL about Josiah Harlan, an American traveler who raised an army in Afghanistan 1830s with the intent of becoming a king. He led his followers on various campaigns against slaveholding princes and after returning to the US attempted to be appointed a general in the Civil War against the Confederacy.
VM6oQ TIL that a cat was arrested by the Thai police for breaking quarantine regulations.
1QRV TIL Henry V’s only surviving portrait is in profile probably because he was shot in the face by an arrow fighting Welsh and English rebels in Shrewsbury which left bad scarring, this is probably also where he learnt the effectiveness of the Welsh Longbow which helped him win the Battle Of Agincourt.
newwb TIL WWII shipwrecks are an important source of "low background steel" (i.e. steel produced before the introduction of nuclear weapons) required to produced devices sensitive to radioactivity.
jNWap TIL Despite smoking marijuana, using large amounts of cocaine, drinking to excess & being a heavy cigarette smoker, actor Steve McQueen followed a daily two-hour exercise regimen involving weightlifting and, at one point, running 5 miles, seven days a week and learned martial arts.