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TIL that Justin Timberlake sung on "No Sex for Ben" by The Rapture, but it never got approval

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VMgp4 TIL when Francis Ford Coppola asked Al Pacino if he would star in ‘Apocalypse Now,’ Pacino replied, “I know what this is going to be like. You're going to be up there in a helicopter telling me what to do, and I'm gonna be down in a swamp for five months." The shoot actually lasted sixteen months.
kO5b5 TIL The 1939 classic Gone with the Wind was the highest grossing movie in history until the Sound of Music broke the box office record in 1966. When Gone with the Wind was re-released in 1971 it regained the top spot until The Godfather sent it to "sleep with the fishes" the next year.
YpkK7 TIL between 1977 and 2015, the college textbook industry has increased its prices by 1,041%. This was managed through aggressive business tactics such as forcing students to buy new versions of the same textbook and incorporating more pictures into a text to increase its length.
R54Nj TIL in 1967 a man named Thomas Jolley fled the US to Canada and renounced his citizenship to avoid being drafted in the Vietnam War. A few months later he returned to the US and was ordered deported, but Canada refused to accept him back. He spent the rest of his life in the US as an illegal alien.
R0xw TIL that research on DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) has largely shown it to be ineffective, and in some cases it has increased the use of drugs at schools.