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TIL 10% of Florida's adult population are felons

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oBVWA 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.
R74pQ TIL that in the Peanuts cartoon the absence of adults and using a trombone to act as their voice was done to give Peanuts a unique point of view, bringing the comic down to the level of children, and not children from an adult's viewpoint.
OoGeR TIL Emmer wheat was widely cultivated in the ancient world and formed part of the primary ingredients, along with barley, in ancient Egyptian bread and beer
m1V6M TIL : Willie O'Ree, the first black man to play in the NHL, was blind in one eye. It was caused by a ricocheting puck that hit him in the face when he was 18 and he kept it a secret for his entire 21-year career.
wRZP TIL that Saudi Arabia has been ruled by the same family for longer than the United States has been a country