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Susan Buffett reveals the surprising way she found out that her dad, Warren Buffett, was rich

Susan Buffett didn't find out her father, billionaire Warren Buffett, was rich until her early 20s, and she definitely didn't hear it from her parents. "I didn’t really have any idea about any money until I was long out of high school and out of Omaha," Susan recently told Business Insider. "There was an article in the Wall Street Journal at one point when I was probably about 22 or 23, I'd say. That was the first time I was like, 'Oh, there's more going on than I knew about!'" The founder of the Sherwood Foundation, a children's charity, Susan takes part in a portrait of her father, HBO's "Becoming Warren Buffett," which premiered Monday. In the documentary, Susan provides intimate details about her parents, growing up in the family's home in Omaha, Nebraska, and what drove her father to give away a large chunk of his fortune to charitable causes. As for finding out that her father was rich from a news article, sh...

A famous Serbian inventor's 'impenetrable' border wall idea has a surprising connection to President Trump

Building an impenetrable wall along the US-Mexican border, ostensibly to keep out foreigners , is a key item on President Donald Trump's campaign-promise checklist. "I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will  have Mexico pay  for that wall. Mark my words," Trump said during a campaign rally on June 16, 2015. The president moved toward fulfilling that promise on Wednesday, January 25, 2017, when he signed a  new executive order aimed at doing just that. The order tasks the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, a role currently filled by John Kelly, to "immediately plan, design, and construct a physical wall along the southern border, using appropriate materials and technology to most effectively achieve complete operational control[.]" If Secretary Kelly is seeking technological inspiration for the  design of Trump's wall , however, we hope he doesn't go rifling through the FBI's recently released dossier on...