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TIL Chance The Rapper donated over $2 million to Chicago Public Schools. Working with 20 principals and his non-profit SocialWorks, he helped the schools gain $100,000 over 3 years, and selected the schools based on budgetary and individual needs.

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7rRVx TIL Walt Disney's daughter, Diane, rarely spoke to the press. She never sat on the board of the company and in the late Eighties she sold the last of her personal stock. Her children told her that their friends didn’t know that Walt Disney was a man: they only knew his name as a brand
e0GOb TIL Bea Arthur, from the Golden Girls, was an animal rights activist, especially for "Big Cats." She went on Judge Judy to fight for them.
wLvvM TIL: Coca-cola identifies heavy users of its products as anyone who consumes more than 1,000 sodas a year. This represents 20% of total customers. Coke focuses its campaign efforts on these users as it's easier to manipulate them rather than try to get the other 80% to consume more.
mxXgx TIL in 1964, Warren Buffett agreed to selling shares of a failing company for $11.50 per share. The written offer was for only $11.375, so Buffett bought more stock, took control of the company and fired the man who made the offer. The company was Berkshire Hathaway.
lJRB TIL while Australian billionaire Kerry Packer was playing poker in a Vegas casino, a Texas oil investor kept bragging about how rich he was, when he said he was worth $60 Million, Kerry Packer took a coin out of his pocket and said “I’ll flip you for it”.