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TIL The band “The Who” were banned for life from all Holiday Inns when Keith Moon started a food fight with a 5-tier cake, once the police arrived he stripped to his underwear, jumped into his car, drove it through a fence and left it in the bottom of the Flint Holiday Inn pool.

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BJAd TIL that most almonds are really poisonous and “eating even a few dozen in one sitting can be fatal” and that how we bred safe ones remains a mystery.
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