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TIL Casey Kasem declined to reprise his role as Shaggy in "Scooby Doo on Zombie Island" because he had recently gone vegan and wanted that reflected in the character, which was not upheld. This resulted in Billy West's one and only credit for portraying Shaggy.

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XEme6 TIL a brain injury sustained during a mugging turned a man who used to think "math is stupid" into a mathematical savant with a form of synaesthesia that lets him see the world in fractals.
8aorX TIL that in 1867, a shopkeeper named Lily Maxwell was accidentally placed on the voter register for a Manchester by-election. She became the first woman to vote in the UK, 50 years before women's suffrage.
D1eBY TIL that the International Space Station has been described as the most expensive single item ever constructed at $150 billion.
DZar TIL that while awaiting his execution via guillotine, King Louis XVI of France actually pardoned his executioners for the crime of murdering their king.
wLkk6 TIL Darth Vader only appears onscreen for 33 min 41 sec out of the 6.5 hrs in the original trilogy