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TIL the organizers of the 2012 Olympics asked The Who's manager about the possibility of drummer Keith Moon playing at the event. The manager replied that Moon was residing at the Golders Green crematorium, having lived up to the line "I hope I die before I get old". Keith Moon died in 1978.

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loXwG TIL Japan’s capital, Tokyo (or Tokyo Metropolis), has 39 million residents and a $2 Trillion Economy, making it the world’s largest metropolitan Center both by population and by Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
a8M6y TIL of the 'reuzegommers', a group of 'elite' students (children of judges and politicians) who killed a new Initiate. They were sentenced to community service and it was forbidden to publish their names. YouTuber Acid was later convicted of cyberstalking for identifying them.
5VmEp TIL “Corpus Delicti” is the principle that a crime must be proved to have occurred before a person can be convicted of committing that crime.
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7NN7 TIL that Billy Mulligan, suffered from multiple personality disorder in most outstanding way, with world record of 24 personalities. Some of his personalities spoke languages that Billy never learned. They were aware of each other’s presence within Billy, and agreed to live together in cooperation.