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TIL the Brazilian voice actors for Scooby-Doo and Shaggy worked together voicing the characters for over 30 years and passed away just 3 days apart.

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VMgK0 TIL That the experimental T-13 grenade of World War II was designed with a size, weight and shape similar to a baseball, thus making it easy for young American men to properly throw the grenade with both accuracy and distance.
6E9Ql TIL Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, Who Wrote Such Hits as "Surfin' Safari" and "Surfin' USA," Has a Lifelong Fear of Water
R5Bwj TIL that in the US, you have a constitutional right to appear in court in normal clothes because wearing prison scrubs influences the jury
nWLdb TIL in 1938 a New York wallet manufacturer placed a sample Social Security card inside each of its wallets sold nationwide to show that the cards fit. The card included the real Social Security number of a company secretary. Over the years more than 40,000 people used that same number as their own.
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