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TIL Warren Buffett has only sent one e-mail in his entire life… to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft and it ended up in a court in Minneapolis so he’s over it.

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W7ad TIL in 1917 Germans built a 25-foot-tall armor-plated fake tree with a soldier sitting in it to spy on Allied forces. the Germans waited until nightfall and cut down one of the real trees to replace it with the fake one With artillery firing the whole time so the Brits wouldn’t hear the axes.
wowp6 TIL of the Sphinx, a french ironclad warship initially built for the confederacy. After the Union blocked the transaction France sold the ship to Denmark, who refused to accept the ship and sold it back to the confederates. The ship then changed hands several times to end his carreer in Japan.
1GN8 TIL that Charles Guiteau chose an ivory handled revolver to shoot President Garfield because he wanted it to look nice when it was put on display in a museum after he used it.
x61M1 TIL McDonald's initially was a barbeque restaurant when it first opened. They had lots of competition as a barbeque shop and dealt with tight profit margins which caused them to close for a few months. They then reopened as a burger restaurant.
x67jb TIL that other supernatural creatures, aside from fairies and vampires, are also allergic to certain kinds of metals in mythology and folklore. For example, demons are said to be weak against iron, with some legends stating that fairies are fallen angels that weren't evil enough to become demons.