By total coincidence I was reading about the history of Peanuts the other day as I was trying to find out how old the kids were and found out where the name cam

By total coincidence I was reading about the history of Peanuts the other day as I was trying to find out how old the kids were and found out where the name came from. Seems an executive named it. They couldn’t keep using Lil’ Folks, due to another comic named Little Folks, and had to change the name. Howdy Doody was a smash hit and the kids in the audience were referred to as the “peanut gallery”. So the strip about a group of kids became “Peanuts”. And Schulz HATED it. But he had no power at first, and was worried about the effect of a name change on licensees once the strip got really popular. Seems people had to talk him out of it a number of times. The age? Charlie Brown is officially 9.5 years old. When the strip started they were all supposed to be 4, but it was adjusted up a few times in the early years until they reached their final ages.