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TIL Jeopardy champion-turned-host Ken Jennings was college roommates with author Brandon Sanderson

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KY86R TIL the main reason why Francis Ford Coppola used The Doors’ song "The End" at the beginning of his 1979 film “Apocalypse Now”, was because he found it humorous to use a song titled "The End" at the start of the movie.
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