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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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b4XQ TIL Greyhounds have a 270-degree range of vision. They can see objects behind them and over ½ mile in front of them.
NYoN TIL spiked dog collars made their first appearance in ancient Greece, designed to protect the dogs throats from wolf attacks
oB0yR TIL that almost all mammals except for primates are red-green colourblind. This is because all living mammals descend from a small shrew-like species that lived in burrows and mostly came out at night, which had partially lost its sense of vision due to its dark habitat
QJWxd TIL that Michael Jackson once spent $150,000 to put a curse on Steven Spielberg because he didn’t give him the role of Peter Pan in the movie Hook
4Py5 TIL that C-3PO and R2-D2 had their own 1985 single season 13 episode spin-off TV series.