8 Little Known Facts about Charles Schulz...

At (of course) Mental Floss:

2.  He came "this close" a lot:

That wasn’t the only rain cloud hovering over little Charlie’s existence. As a child, he was once super-excited to be in line at a movie theater because they promised candy bars to the first 100 kids to buy tickets. Of course, Schulz happened to be the 101st.

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