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nebDb TIL West Point has a tradition of celebrating the student who came in last in class rank but still graduated, called the Goat. Including having each cadet give the Goat money.
9Yeb6 TIL At the height of their popularity in the 1990's baseball card manufacturers produced an estimated 81 BILLION cards per year. That's about 325 cards per every man, woman, and child in the United States.
5Y7MB TIL in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", in newspaper reports about the fraudulent "winner" of the fifth golden ticket in Paraguay, the man pictured is real-life Nazi Martin Bormann; the joke by the director was that he had fled like many other Nazis to South America.