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TIL Frank Welker has voiced the character Fred Jones in Scooby-Doo since the shows conception on 1969.

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0w9RN TIL Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, Swedish modern pentathlete, was the first athlete to ever be disqualified for doping in the Olympics. He drank 'two beers' to calm his nerves before pistol shooting, giving him an unfair advantage.
a8YZA TIL: dumbo octopuses are named after the famous Disney elephant. Thet live at least 13,100 feet (4,000 m) below the surface. Dumbo octopuses move by slowly flapping their ear-like fins, and they use their arms to steer.
kO4Xm TIL there is a woman from Oklahoma who needed her leg amputated due to cancer, so she kept the limb, had it skeletonized, and now runs an Instagram account largely dedicated to taking photos of/with a former portion of her own skeleton.
M74JV TIL OJ Simpson was considered for the role of the Terminator, but James Cameron did not feel he would be believable as a killer
P96Z TIL that in 1959 a pilot ejected from his plane directly into a violent thunder cloud. The storm winds kept him aloft for 40 minutes, pelting him with hailstones and so much rain that at times he had to hold his breath to keep from drowning in mid-air.