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TIL Casey Kasem was a devout vegan, supported animal rights and environmental causes, and was a critic of factory farming.He initially quit voicing Shaggy in the late 1990s,when asked to voice Shaggy in a Burger King commercial, returning in 2002 after negotiating to have Shaggy become a vegetarian.

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LQko9 TIL that the biggest known underground city on earth was found in Mardin, Turkey
XEAZR TIL Researchers created an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. In one set of experiments, they were able to recover intelligible speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass
dDxb8 TIL A 2007 independent panel found that alcohol is "freely used in crew quarters," where astronauts are quarantined at the Kennedy Space Center in the three days before launch. NASA policy prohibits any drinking in the 12 hours before an astronaut flies a training jet
OoAD6 TIL: That the surviving cast members of the Mary Tyler Moore Show (Gavin McLeod, Ed Asner, Cloris Leachman and Betty White ) have an average age of 92.5
VBk14 TIL: Timon & Pumbaa from The Lion King is based on an actual symbiotic relationship between these two species.