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TIL Warren Buffett made $37 Million each day in 2013

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kp0d TIL that a colony of mammoths survived the demise of the rest of their species by 6000 years on an isolated Siberian island.
OXEe TIL: In 1919, Chicago Irish gangs in blackface attacked and burned Polish neighborhoods because the Poles weren’t racist enough against blacks.
l7anV TIL a 2018 study found that male gorillas who participated the most in babysitting duties sired more than five times the offspring as male gorillas who avoided child care. Male gorillas are "often quite snuggly, letting infant and juvenile gorillas cuddle, play and just hang out in their nests."
KYEAw TIL that Richard Nixon’s daughter married Dwight D. Eisenhower’s grandson.
XE04Q TIL that modern fire departments/brigades have their origins from when property-insurance companies had their own fire departments.