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TIL Driving for long periods of time or being stuck in traffic with your foot pressed on the brake pedal of your car can cause "driver's foot" condition

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Kxy6 TIL in 1962, investor Warren Buffett agreed to selling shares of a failing company for $11.50 per share. The tender offer was for only $11.375, so Buffett decided to buy more stock, took control of the company and fired the man who made the offer.
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W7OyL TIL that when Belfast was lain waste to by the Blitz in April 1941, 71 firefighters and 13 firefighting appliances from Dublin in neutral Ireland were dispatched north to help.
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