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TIL voice actor Casey Kasem known for voicing Shaggy from Scooby Doo quit the Transformers cartoon project because it depicted a Saharan kingdom named "Carbombya"

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yQoQw TIL the first canned dog food in the US was introduced after WWI, to help dispose of dead horses. It was sold under the brand Ken-L Ration
grE57 TIL about a NASA plan to build a giant telescope with a diameter over 1km in one of the craters on the moon.
vPaPB TIL of "Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome" where the body doesn't respond to testosterone so they have the genetic makeup of a man while showing the physical traits of a woman
dD8Qr TIL during racial segregation in the 1940’s, Elvis Presley grew up in what was a majority black community in Tupelo, Mississippi. He regularly attended black gospel church revivals & visited “Shake Rag” a local cultural hub for black folks, where he was first exposed to rhythm & blues music.
a9vo TIL Newborns’ crying is influenced by native language. In a 2009 study, French infants were shown to cry with a “rising melody contour” while German infants cried with “falling contours”.