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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

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69dJQ TIL The boom in guitar sales in 2021 is comparable to that of the post-Beatles boom of the 60s, in which millions of instruments were sold annually. Even when sales began to fall after reaching 2.5 million by 1971, a “sizeable minority persisted” with the instrument
oB917 TIL the peak of Mount Everest is a "fecal time bomb" due to over six decades worth of human waste being left on the mountain.
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