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Willie Williams

... that retired United States Marine Corps three-star general Willie Williams (pictured) originally planned to enlist in the Air Force after high school instead of going to college?
... that an Israeli diplomat was assassinated in Ankara just two days after diplomatic relations between Israel and Turkey were fully established?
... that Celeste Bedford Walker said that both her plays on the Houston riot of 1917 and Tulsa race massacre were "quintessential racial confrontation stories"?
... that actor Kōta Nomura had no experience in cooking before being cast in the live-action drama adaptation of Perfect Propose?
... that Gerry Snyder brought the Summer Olympics and Major League Baseball to Montreal?
... that an attempt to use automated dialogue replacement in the Reservation Dogs episode "Deer Lady" failed because the voice sounded too much like Yoda?
... that a former police whistleblower is developing six islands in The World?
... that the 2012 Southern Indiana tornado ripped chunks of asphalt concrete off of a road and threw the pieces 30 yards (27 m) away?
... that the proprietor of the company Samurai Shokai promoted the foreign practice of shaking hands in Japan?