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TIL that after being initially cancelled, the second season of ‘Jericho’ was only reinstated after fans sent 20 tons of nuts to CBS studios in a nationwide protest.

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xV7WD TIL about a journey to the end of time, trillions of years into the future, We start in 2019 and travel exponentially through time, witnessing the future of Earth, the death of the sun, the end of all stars, and ultimately the end of everything within the known universe.
P1PpV TIL that the voice of Shaggy in “Scooby-Doo”, Casey Kasem, was vegan. He quit the role after being asked to voice Shaggy for a Burger King commercial in the 1990s. Not only did he refuse the commercial, but he negotiated for Shaggy to cut out meat before returning to voicing him again
gMQNL TIL precolonial Mesoamerican maps depicted both geographic features AND its history using logographs showing what an area was (i.e. a hill) and what happened there (i.e. glyphs for battles etc). As it told their stories, Native city-states used their city-maps as state symbols, akin to modern flags
j66jM TIL of Mt. Zion Cemetery, founded in 1916 in East Los Angeles, as a burial place for Eastern European Jews. Amongst the buried was Lamed Shapiro, noted Yiddish writer who died destitute. Inconclusive county records indicate no legal owner, with the last burial taking place in the late 2000s.
0wvJp TIL that in the Bay of Fundy, the amount of water that runs in and out of the bay each tidal cycle is twice the amount of water that flows through all of the world's rivers during that same time