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TIL that Johnny Knoxville comes from significant inbreeding

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e1ng TIL that in mobile games, 60% of revenues come from 0.23% of players.
0dAMy TIL that the lowest recorded Gallup Poll presidential approval rating is from Harry Truman, who reached 22% during the Korean War. This was due in large part to Truman deciding to relieve General Douglas MacArthur of command due to his desire to use nuclear weapons to win the war.
VMYKZ TIL of Richard Lawrence, who in 1835 attempted to assassinate President Andrew Jackson at a funeral using two pistols shot point blank. When both misfired, the President severely beat him with his cane, after which he was wrestled into submission by Davy Crockett.
b6ny9 TIL MD 20/20 is short for Mogen David fortified wine. Mad Dog is only a nickname for the drink.
VMyxD TIL: a real water buffalo is seen being slaughtered at the end of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now.” The animal had already been marked for sacrifice by the indigenous tribe whose land they were using to film, so Coppola decided to capture the actual ritual for the movie.