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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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KYrJ9 TIL in 1906 con man Wilhelm Voigt posed as a Prussian military officer and took a group of troops by train to the town of Köpenick, arresting the mayor and stealing 4000 German marks. He was viewed as a folk hero and the Kaiser later pardoned him. A statue of him stands outside the city hall.
EG8w TIL Imgur was created by a redditor as a gift to reddit over 5 years ago.
M7rJm TIL that Lewis Carroll's (author of Alice in Wonderland's) real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, and he was a Professor of Mathematics at Oxford.
XEwAr TIL about Miles Copeland Jr., a former jazz trumpeter whose work as a CIA officer inspired the names of his sons' music ventures: Miles III started a record label, International Record Syndicate (IRS); Ian, a talent agency, Frontier Booking International (FBI); and Stewart, a drummer, The Police.
oBPoK [TIL] "Slow movement culture" where the group embraces "Slow food" instead of "fast food", "Slow reading" instead of "fast reading" etc. The whole idea is to slow down and notice the nuances and appreciate the details.