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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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4kXEJ TIL Indianapolis Motor Speedway was originally paved with 3.2 million bricks, it took workers only 63 days to pave the entire circuit.
XEbeQ TIL, Bangladesh has six seasons: Grisma (summer), Barsa (rainy), Sarat (autumn), Hemanta (late autumn), Shhit (winter) and Basanta (spring).
E1dbP TIL that your cousins’ children are your 1st cousins once removed, and that “once removed” simply refers to the one generation gap between you. Their children are thus your 1st cousins twice removed, etc.
l7oj5 TIL about Narcocorridos or drug songs commissioned by drug cartels to sing about the illegal drug business
8eGwV TIL, there are elements named Darmstadtium, Hassium, Germanium and Europium which are named after the city of Darmstadt which is in Hesse, which is in Germany, which is in Europe respectively.