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TIL That during a concert in San Francisco in 1973, an audience member watching The Who played the drums for the band when Keith Moon passed out mid-show

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nel4r TIL the "rule" which says never to end a sentence with a preposition may derive from John Dryden's habit of translating his own English verse into Latin. He did so to "check whether his writing was concise and elegant, Latin being considered an elegant and long-lived language with which to compare."
5R8P TIL During WW2, the British Secret Intelligence Service distributed the board game Monopoly to prisoners of war. Hidden inside were maps, compasses, real money, and other objects useful for escaping.
NX8EM TIL the brown bear has been recorded to consume the greatest variety of foods of any bear. This is illustrated in the US, as meat made up 51% of the average diet for Yellowstone grizzlies, while it only made up 11% of the diet for grizzlies from Glacier National Park a few hundred miles to the north
YpLr TIL that the gold records the RIAA gives to artists are actual gold-plated vinyl records, but they often were made from any record that was handy. Rarely was the plated record actually of the song or album being commemorated.
rRWEx TIL that the director of The Little Mermaid ,Ron Clements received a letter from a New Jersey State Trooper saying that, after seeing the movie and being driven to tears by it, he called his estranged daughter to reconcile their own relationship, just as Ariel and Triton did.