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TIL almost 2/3 (61%) of WW2 American servicemen were draftees instead of volunteers

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OG7xX TIL Paramount Pictures bought the rights to the Godfather book for only $80,000 before the book was popular. The book went on to sell 9 million copies in two years and remained on the New York Times best seller list for 67 weeks. It became the best selling published work in history for several years
kywE TIL That Julius Ceasar’s only biological son, Caesarion, was the last Pharaoh of Egypt.
p8W68 TIL that a man, Tommie Woodward, was killed by an alligator after yelling "Fuck that alligator" and jumping into the water nearby. Woodward, who was drinking in an outdoor bar, had been warned not to enter the water because of the beast. There were also signs that warned of alligator attacks.
jlZj TIL: The former band Hanson, founded a beer company in Oklahoma, calling their beer “Mmmhops Pale Ale”
W79L4 TIL that on May 1, 2014, the stock exchange was fined $4.5 million by the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges that it had violated market rules