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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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MeJAb TIL about the “sverdrup” (Sv), a measurement of flow equal to 1,000,000 cubic meters or 260,000,000 gallons per second. The largest ocean current, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, is 125 Sv. As a comparison, all the rivers of the world flowing into the oceans is only about 1.25 Sv.
E16QW TIL in 2010, a Polish man living in Germany asked doctors to remove what he thought was a several-year old cyst at the back of his head. However, doctors found that the 'cyst' was actually a .22-caliber round lodged in his scalp. He didn’t noticed it because he was drunk when it happened 5 years ago
9YAMM TIL that a man was cured of HIV in 2007 with a bone marrow transplant from someone with genes resistant to HIV. He's the first person to ever be cured.
Lrxv TIL that in the poorest areas of Africa, people wave oiled-up pans in the air, so that Midge Flies stick to it. After catching enough bugs, they are scraped off and cooked into a meatball. Catching the flies with the pan is very entertaining for the kids in the village.
9YoX6 TIL that Gin has been traced all the way back to the 11th century where it was used as medicinal juniper-based wine tonic by Benedictine monks in Salerno, Italy.