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TIL: While in her mid 40’s Rose Blumkin who knew little English started a company in 1937 with 500 dollars and grew it to the biggest furniture business in the US & was acquire by W. Buffet in 1983. Later in her mid 90’s started a rival company that Buffet had to purchase again yet again.
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TIL Tom Seaver was named on 425 out of 430 ballots for the Baseball Hall of Fame. 3 were blank as a protest against Pete Rose being ineligible. One was sent by a writer recovering from surgery who did not notice Seaver’s name and one never voted for any player in their first year of eligibility.
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TIL The Zombies 1968 song “A Rose for Emily” was inspired but not based on William Faulkner’s story: “I enjoyed the story, but I thought, ‘What a beautifully evocative title.’ Even though I’d just read the short story, I took the title and spun my own story around,” said composer Rod Argent in 2017.
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