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TIL Phil Collins approached Pete Townshend to replace Keith Moon in The Who shortly after his death but they had already recruited Kenney Jones

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VM14G TIL that in 2006, a teacher and her students were trapped after their school disappeared under a huge mudslide in the Philippines. They managed to send text messages "We're still in one room, alive," But rescue proved dangerous, authorities were forced to conclude that no one had survived
wol57 TIL that, in 1910, King Nicolas I of Montenegro ordered his male subjects to possess at least one "Gasser Pattern revolver", leading to these weapons becoming status symbols
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4XN46 TIL that there are stones called tsunami stones that dot the coastline of Japan. They read, “Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point.“