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TIL when ice sheets collide, they can form mountains at the boundary, just like tectonic plates

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YAZd TIL At 11 years old Warren Buffett bought his first stock, 6 shares of Cities Service (CITGO) at $38 per share. The price fell to $27 but soon went to $40 and he sold. However the stock shot up to $202 a few years later and he later cited this experience as an early lesson in patience in investing.
GpD7 TIL there is an island in japan that is “ruled by cats”
5PgQ TIL that it was common for some Romans to take up a “beautiful-looking” prepubescent boy as a sex-slave to serve both the master and mistress of a household, castrating him so the boy retains his prepubescent qualities.
QNPek TIL that honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3000 years old and still perfectly edible.
4Xngw TIL in 1915, during a historic drought, San Diego hired a “Rain Maker.” He took the job and soon thereafter there was so much rain that there were floods and a dam even broke. They didn’t pay him though. Too much rain.