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TIL that Warren Buffett (5th richest in the world) started buying shares of Berkshire Hathaway in 1962 for less than $8 each. Right now, those shares are worth more than $740,000 each. He will finally retire as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, at the age of 95 years old, at the end of this year.

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0dPLN TIL about Zhang Shangwu, a Chinese gymnast who won two gold medals at the 2001 Beijing but became homeless after a torn Achilles tendon . Zhang performed street gymnastics and sold his medals for around $15 each.
R7xL7 TIL that our voices sound higher in recordings than they do when we speak because bones conduct low frequencies better.
R7mj8 TIL in 1928 a mail plane crashed into Georgia's Stone Mountain. The pilot not only survived the crash, but manually picked up the mail and descended the mountain himself.
78aLP TIL that Cecil Fielder and his son Prince Fielder are tied for 126th on the Major League Baseball home run list, with each having scored 319 in their career.
a8Nx0 TIL While Michelangelo was painting the Last Judgement, Papal MC Biagio de Cesana spied on his work. And complained that it was not worthy of the Sistine Chapel. In response Michelangelo painted Biagio into the fresco, as the depiction of Minos being dragged to Hell with a snake biting his penis.