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TIL Billionare Warren Buffet resides in a 6000 sqaure-foot home located in Omaha, Nebraska that he purchased in 1958 for $31,500 (roughly $250,000 present-day).

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4X6Dw TIL Wadi-al-Salam, the world's largest graveyard, covers 1500 acres, sees 350 burials a day and contains 5 million bodies.
4evX TIL in the original story of Peter Pan, the Lost Boys do age, even in Neverland. The reason the group is always made up of children is because if they don’t die by other means (which is common), Peter “thins them out.” The author never clarifies whether this means they’re executed or banished.
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